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?


In Context

1 Elisha said, "Hear the word of the Lord . This is what the Lord says: About this time tomorrow, a seah of flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria."

2 The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, "Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?" "You will see it with your own eyes," answered Elisha, "but you will not eat any of it!"

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

4 If we say, 'We'll go into the city'-the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let's go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die."

5 At dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Arameans. When they reached the edge of the camp, not a man was there,

2nd Kings 7:3 in Other Translations

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;

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?