3And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?


In Context

1 Then Elisha said, Hear you the word of the LORD; Thus said the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat thereof.

3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.

2 Kings 7:3 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:3Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, "Why stay here until we die?

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:3And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:3Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:3Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:3And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, Why do we abide here until we die?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:3Now there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:3And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:3Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, |Why do we sit here until we die?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:3And four men have been leprous, at the opening of the gate, and they say one unto another, 'What — we are sitting here till we have died;