2 Kings 7:13
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And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.But one of his servants replied, “Please, have scouts take five of the horses that remain in the city. Their plight will be no worse than all the Israelites who are left here. You can see that all the Israelites here are doomed. So let us send them and find out.”
In other translations
And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.But one of his servants replied, “Please, have scouts take five of the horses that remain in the city. Their plight will be no worse than all the Israelites who are left here. You can see that all the Israelites here are doomed. So let us send them and find out.”
Hebrew words
וַיַּעַןvaiya'anand he answeredH6030אֶחָד'echadoneH259מֵעֲבָדָיוme'avadavfrom servants hisH5650וַיֹּאמֶרvaiyomerand he saidH559וְיִקְחוּ־veyikchu-and they may takeH3947נָאna'pleaseH4994חֲמִשָּׁהchamishahfiveH2568מִן־min-ofH4480הַסּוּסִיםhasusimthe horsesH5483הַנִּשְׁאָרִיםhanish'arim<the> remainingH7604אֲשֶׁר'asherwhichH834נִשְׁאֲרוּ־nish'aru-they are leftH7604בָהּvahin itהִנָּםhinamhere theyH2009כְּכָל־kekhol-[will be] like allH3605הֲמוֹןhehamon[the] multitude ofH1995יִשְׂרָאֵלyisra'elIsraelH3478אֲשֶׁר'asherwhichH834נִשְׁאֲרוּ־nish'aru-they are leftH7604בָהּvahin itהִנָּםhinamhere theyH2005כְּכָל־kekhol-[will be] like allH3605הֲמוֹןhamon[the] multitude ofH1995יִשְׂרָאֵלyisra'elIsraelH3478אֲשֶׁר־'asher-whichH834תָּמּוּtamuthey have come to an endH8552וְנִשְׁלְחָהvenishlechahand let us sendH7971וְנִרְאֶה׃venir'ehand we may seeH7200
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Related verses
- 2 Kings 7:4If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”
- 2 Kings 5:13And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?Naaman’s servants, however, approached him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’?”
- Jeremiah 14:18If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
- 2 Kings 6:33And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the Lord; what should I wait for the Lord any longer?While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
- Lamentations 4:9They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
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