They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.

He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live.

The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”