¹¹ And he called the gatekeepers, and they told it to the king’s house within.

¹² And the king arose in the night and said unto his servants, “I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive and get into the city.’”

¹³ And one of his servants answered and said, “Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city — behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites who are consumed — and let us send and see.”