2 Kings 6:24
New International Version
Famine in Besieged Samaria
24 Some time later, Ben-Hadad(A) king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid siege(B) to Samaria.
2 Kings 7:3-7
New International Version
The Siege Lifted
3 Now there were four men with leprosy[a](A) at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? 4 If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”
5 At dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Arameans. When they reached the edge of the camp, no one was there, 6 for the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound(B) of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired(C) the Hittite(D) and Egyptian kings to attack us!” 7 So they got up and fled(E) in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 7:3 The Hebrew for leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin; also in verse 8.
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