⁹ Then they said to one another,^[a] “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news! If we are silent and wait until the light of morning, they will find us and we will be punished.^[b] So then, come, let us go and tell the house of the king.” ¹⁰ When they came, they called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Arameans, and behold, there was no man or the voice of a man there! Only the horses and the donkeys were tied up, and the tents were left as they were.” ¹¹ Then the gatekeepers called and told it inside the house of the king.