So they said, “This is blood; the kings must have fought each other, and they have killed one another. Now then, Moab, to the spoils!”

Four Men with Leprosy Report Arameans’ Flight

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?

For the Lord had made the army of the Arameans hear a sound of chariots, a sound of horses, that is, the sound of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians against us, to attack us!”

Then they said to one another, “We are not doing the right thing. This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping silent about it; if we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now then come, let’s go and inform the king’s household.”