2 Kings 7:3-5

International Standard Version

The Arameans Flee

³ Now there happened to be four lepers who were at that very moment at the entrance to the city gate. As they were talking with one another, they said, “Why are we sitting here waiting to die? ⁴ If we tell ourselves, ‘Let’s remain in the city,’ we’ll die there since there’s famine in the city. But if we sit here, we’ll die, too. So let’s go over^[a] to the Arameans! If they spare our lives, we’ll live, and if they kill us…we’re dying anyway!”^[b]

⁵ So they got up at dusk and went out to the Aramean encampment. But when they arrived at the outskirts of the Aramean encampment, there was no one there!