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?


In Context

1 And Elisha said, Hear ye the word of Jehovah: thus saith Jehovah, 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 the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance 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 unto 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 unto the camp of the Syrians; and when they were come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, 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 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;

The American 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?