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2 Kings 7:3

WEB

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?

KJV

3¶ 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?

BSB

3Now 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?

FBV

3There happened to be four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why are we sitting around here until we die?

Extra References

Leviticus 13:45-46

45“The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’ 46All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp.

Numbers 5:2-4

2“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse. 3You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”

4The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp; as the LORD spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

2 Kings 7:4

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.”

Numbers 12:14

14The LORD said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”

Jeremiah 27:13

13Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Jeremiah 8:14

14“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

2 Kings 5:1

1Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria; he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

2 Kings 8:4

4Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”