2 Kings 7:3-5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

The Arameans Flee

³ Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate; and they said to one another, “Why do we sit here till we die? ⁴ If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians; if they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die.” ⁵ So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; but when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no one there.