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Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate ;
and they said to one another , "
Why do we sit here till we die ?
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If we say , `
Let us enter the city ,'
the famine is in the city ,
and we shall die there ;
and if we sit here ,
we die also .
So now come ,
let us go over to the camp of the Syrians ;
if they spare our lives we shall live ,
and if they kill us we shall but die ."
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So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians ;
but when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians ,
behold ,
there was no one there .
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For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians hear the sound of chariots ,
and of horses ,
the sound of a great army ,
so that they said to one another , "
Behold ,
the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come upon us ."
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So they fled away in the twilight and forsook their tents ,
their horses ,
and their asses ,
leaving the camp as it was ,
and fled for their lives .
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And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp ,
they went into a tent ,
and ate and drank ,
and they carried off silver and gold and clothing ,
and went and hid them ;
then they came back ,
and entered another tent ,
and carried off things from it ,
and went and hid them .