The four leprous men go to the camp of the Syrians, eat and drink in a tent, and hide silver, gold, and clothing
문둥이 네 사람이 아람 진에 가서 장막에서 먹고 마시고 은과 금과 의복을 감춤
2 Kings 7:3–8: now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They say to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die? If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.” They rise 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, no man was there. The text says, “For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, ‘Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.’ Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.” When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they go into one tent, and eat and drink, then carry away silver, gold, and clothing and go and hide it. Then they come back, and enter into another tent and carry things from there also, and go and hide them. At 7:6 the Korean Revised Version reads 애굽 왕들, the kings of Egypt, where WEB reads “the kings of the Egyptians”.
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- 2KI 7:3–8, engwebp
3Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?
4If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”
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, no man was there.
6For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.”
7Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
8When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, then carried away silver, gold, and clothing and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent and carried things from there also, and went and hid them.
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Entry: The four leprous men go to the camp of the Syrians, eat and drink in a tent, and hide silver, gold, and clothing (event-2ki-7-four-leprous-men-go-to-the-camp-of-the-syrians)
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Current wording: 2 Kings 7:3–8: now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They say to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die? If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.” They rise 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, no man was there. The text says, “For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, ‘Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.’ Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.” When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they go into one tent, and eat and drink, then carry away silver, gold, and clothing and go and hide it. Then they come back, and enter into another tent and carry things from there also, and go and hide them. At 7:6 the Korean Revised Version reads 애굽 왕들, the kings of Egypt, where WEB reads “the kings of the Egyptians”.
Cited evidence: 2KI 7:3–8, engwebp
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