2 Kings 7:3-5
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
The Arameans Flee
3 Now there were four leprous[a] men outside the city gate, who said to one another, ‘Why should we sit here until we die? 4 If we say, “Let us enter the city”, the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; but if we sit here, we shall also die. Therefore, let us desert to the Aramean camp; 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 Aramean camp; but when they came to the edge of the Aramean camp, there was no one there at all.
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- 2 Kings 7:3 A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain
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