列王纪下 7:10

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們就去呼喊守城門的，告訴他們說：“我們去過亞蘭人的軍營那裡，看見那裡一個人也沒有，也沒有人聲。只有馬仍拴著，驢仍拴著，帳幕都原封不動。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 就 去 叫 守 城 门 的 ， 告 诉 他 们 说 ： 我 们 到 了 亚 兰 人 的 营 ， 不 见 一 人 在 那 里 ， 也 无 人 声 ， 只 有 拴 着 的 马 和 驴 ， 帐 棚 都 照 旧 。

Contextual Overview

³ There were four men with a skin disease at the entrance to the city gate. They said to each other, "Why do we sit here until we die? ⁴ There is no food in the city. So if we go into the city, we will die there. If we stay here, we will die. So let's go to the Aramean camp. If they let us live, we will live. If they kill us, we die." ⁵ So they got up at twilight and went to the Aramean camp, but when they arrived, no one was there. ⁶ The Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a large army. They had said to each other, "The king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to attack us!" ⁷ So they got up and ran away in the twilight, leaving their tents, horses, and donkeys. They left the camp standing and ran for their lives. ⁸ When the men with the skin disease came to the edge of the camp, they went into one of the tents and ate and drank. They carried silver, gold, and clothes out of the camp and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent. They carried things from this tent and hid them, also. ⁹ Then they said to each other, "We're doing wrong. Today we have good news, but we are silent. If we wait until the sun comes up, we'll be discovered. Let's go right now and tell the people in the king's palace." ¹⁰ So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city. They said, "We went to the Aramean camp, but no one is there; we didn't hear anyone. The horses and donkeys were still tied up, and the tents were still standing." ¹¹ Then the gatekeepers shouted out and told the people in the palace.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the porter: 2 Kings 7:11, 2 Samuel 18:26, Psalms 127:1, Mark 13:34, Mark 13:35

no man there: 2 Kings 7:6, 2 Kings 7:7

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 8:4 - Gehazi

Cross-References

Genesis 6:17
I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made."

Genesis 7:17
Water flooded the earth for forty days, and as it rose it lifted the boat off the ground.

Genesis 7:20
It continued to rise until it was more than twenty feet above the mountains.

Job 22:16
They were carried away before their time was up, and their foundations were washed away by a flood.

Luke 17:27
People were eating, drinking, marrying, and giving their children to be married until the day Noah entered the boat. Then the flood came and killed them all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they came and called to the porter of the city,.... The chief of those that had the care of the gate of it; for there were more than one, as follows:

and they told them; the porter, and the watchmen with him:

we came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man; not one to be seen or heard:

but horses tied, and asses tied; to their mangers; the latter, as well as the former, were used for war, not only to carry burdens, but to fight upon, as Aelianus a relates of some people; and especially when there was a want of horses, as Strabo b; and both observe that this creature was sacrificed to Mars:

and the tents as they were; none of them struck, nor anything taken out of them.

a De Animal. l. 12. c. 34. b Geograph. l. 15. p. 500.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They called unto the porter ... and told them - The word “porter” is used like our “guard” and the meaning here is, not that the lepers called to any particular individual, but that they roused the body of men who were keeping guard at one of the gates.