2Kings:7:3-20

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* And 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 ? * If we say , Let us enter into the city , the famine is in the city , and we shall die there ; and if we abide here , we shall die . And now come , let us fall away to the camp of the Syrians : if they save us alive , we shall live ; and if they put us to death , we shall but die . * And 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 . * For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots , and a noise of horses , a noise of a great host ; 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 upon us . * And they rose up and fled in the dusk , and left their tents , and their horses , and their asses , the camp as it was , and fled for their life . * And those lepers came to the extremity of the camp ; and they went into one tent , and ate and drank , and carried thence silver and gold , and garments , and went and hid it ; and they came again , and entered into another tent , and carried thence , and went and hid [it ]. * And they said one to another , We are not doing right ; this day is a day of good tidings , and we hold our peace : if we tarry till the morning light , the iniquity will find us out ; and now come , let us go and tell the king 's household . * And they came and called to the porters of the city , and told them saying , We came to the camp of the Syrians , and behold , there was no one there , no sound of man , but the horses tied , and the asses tied , and the tents as they were . * And the porters cried [it ] and told [it ] to the king 's house within . * And the king rose up in the night and said to his servants , Let me tell you what the Syrians have done to us . They know that we are hungry , and they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field , saying , When they come out of the city , we shall catch them alive , and get into the city . * And one of his servants answered and said , Let some one take , I pray thee , five of the horses that remain , which are left in the city (behold , they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it : behold , they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that have perished ), and let us send and see . * And they took two chariots with their horses ; and the king sent after the army of the Syrians , saying , Go and see . * And they went after them to the Jordan ; and behold , all the way was full of garments and materials , which the Syrians had cast away in their haste . And the messengers returned and told the king . * And the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians ; and the measure of fine flour was at a shekel , and two measures of barley at a shekel , according to the word of Jehovah . * And the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate ; and the people trampled upon him in the gate , and he died , according to what the man of God had said , -- what he had said when the king came down to him . * And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king saying , Two measures of barley shall be at a shekel , and the measure of fine flour at a shekel , to-morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria . * And the captain answered the man of God and said , Behold , if Jehovah should make windows in the heavens , would such a thing be ? And he said , Behold , thou shalt see it with thine eyes , but shalt not eat thereof . * And so it happened to him ; and the people trampled upon him in the gate , and he died .

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