5They 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.


In Context

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.

6 For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.

7 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

2 Kings 7:5 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:5At 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,

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:5So they arose in the evening, to go to the Syrian camp, And when they were come to the first part of the camp of the Syrians, they found no man there.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:5And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5And they rose up in the dusk to go to the camp of the Syrians; and they came to the extremity of the camp of the Syrians; and behold, there was no man there.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:5And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5And they rose in the twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians: and when they had come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5And they rise in the twilight, to go in unto the camp of Aram, and they come in unto the extremity of the camp of Aram, and lo, there is not a man there,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5And 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.