11The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported within the palace.


In Context

8 The men who had leprosy reached the edge of the camp and entered one of the tents. They ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold and clothes, and went off and hid them. They returned and entered another tent and took some things from it and hid them also.

9 Then they said to each other, "We're not doing right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let's go at once and report this to the royal palace."

10 So they went and called out to the city gatekeepers and told them, "We went into the Aramean camp and not a man was there-not a sound of anyone-only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents left just as they were."

11 The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported within the palace.

12 The king got up in the night and said to his officers, "I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide in the countryside, thinking, 'They will surely come out, and then we will take them alive and get into the city.' "

13 One of his officers answered, "Have some men take five of the horses that are left in the city. Their plight will be like that of all the Israelites left here-yes, they will only be like all these Israelites who are doomed. So let us send them to find out what happened."

2nd Kings 7:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:11And he called the porters; and they told [it] to the king’s house within.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:11Then the guards of the gate went, and told it within the king's palace.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:11And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:11And the porters cried it and told it to the king's house within.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:11And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:11And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:11He called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:11and he calleth the gatekeepers, and they declare to the house of the king within.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:11And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.