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?


In Context

1 Elisha said, |Hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says Yahweh, 'Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will 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 Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?| He said, |Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.|

3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, |Why do we sit 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. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.|

5 They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had 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 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 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?