2Ki 7:3-4 | ESV | STEP | Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate . And they said to one another , Why are we sitting here until we die ?

2 Kings 7:3-4

The Syrians Flee

3 Now there were four men who were lepers ^{▼▼Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13} ^bat the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until 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.”