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2 Kings 7:3-4

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7:3 Now four men with a skin disease 1  were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, “Why are we just sitting here waiting to die? 2  7:4 If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, 3  and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect 4  to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, 5  we’ll live; if they kill us – well, we were going to die anyway.” 6 

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[7:3]  1 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 5:1.

[7:3]  2 tn Heb “until we die.”

[7:4]  3 tn Heb “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city and we will die there.”

[7:4]  4 tn Heb “fall.”

[7:4]  5 tn Heb “keep us alive.”

[7:4]  6 tn Heb “we will die.” The paraphrastic translation attempts to bring out the logical force of their reasoning.



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