2 Kings 7:4
If 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.
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Gill's Exposition
If we say we will enter into the city,.... Contrary to the law which forbid them:
then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; not being able to obtain food to preserve life:
and if we…
We are here told,
I. How the siege of Samaria was raised in the evening, at the edge of night (Kg2 7:6, Kg2 7:7), not by might or power, but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts, striking terror upon…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
let us fall unto the host of the Syrians These wrecks of humanity use the language which would be used by hale men who were desertingone side for another. Cf. 1Sa 29:3; 2Ki 25:11. The expression -fall…
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