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2 Kings 7:3
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1 Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord: a‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.’ ”  
2 aSo an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “Look, bif the Lord would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” And he said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”  

The Syrians Flee

3 Now there were four leprous men aat the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?  
4 If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the aarmy of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die.”  
5 And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise no one was there.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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2 Kings 7:3

there were four leprous men—The account of the sudden raising of the siege and the unexpected supply given to the famishing inhabitants of Samaria, is introduced by a narrative of the visit and discovery, by these poor creatures, of the extraordinary flight of the Syrians.

leprous men at the entering in of the gate—living, perhaps, in some lazar house there (Leviticus 13:4-6; Numbers 5:3).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Kings 7:3:

Leviticus 13:46
2 Kings 15:1-7
Luke 17:13

 

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