2 Kings 7:3

Translations

Modern

Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?

Traditional

And 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?

Literal

And four leprous men were at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?

Latin

Quatuor ergo viri erant leprosi juxta introitum portæ: qui dixerunt ad invicem: Quid hic esse volumus donec moriamur?

Original

Hebrew

English

Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?

Notes

2 Kings 7:3

These four men were outcasts due to their illness and stayed outside the city gates (Leviticus 13:45–46; see Luke 17:11–13).

Theme notes and profiles

Elijah Elisha

Events

Prophecies of Elisha

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Leviticus 13:45–46
A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
Numbers 5:2–4
“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
2 Kings 7:4
If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”
Jeremiah 27:13
Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?
Jeremiah 8:14
Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
2 Kings 8:4
Now the king had been speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things Elisha has done.”
Numbers 12:14
But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”
2 Kings 5:1
Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

Glossary

Elisha Kings, Books of First and Second Malachi, Book of Samaria

Topics

Leprosy: Leprosy not Mentioned Above: Four Lepers Outside Samaria Leprosy: Those Afflicted With: Associated Together Prophecy: Miscellaneous, Fulfilled: The End of the Famine in Samaria Sanitation: Quarantine: Instances of

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