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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

列王纪下 7:9

四個痲風病人報信他們彼此說:“我們這樣作是不對的。今天是報好消息的日子,我們竟不出聲,如果我們等到早上天亮,我們就算為有罪了。現在,來吧,我們要去通知王家。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Conscience;   Patriotism;   Prophecy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Good;   Tidings, Good;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Day;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Samaria;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Evangelize, Evangelism;   Gospel;   Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jehoram;   Samaria;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jehoram;   Samaria;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Samaria ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha;   Samaria;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Iniquity;   Jehoiakim;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
那 时 , 他 们 彼 此 说 : 我 们 所 做 的 不 好 ! 今 日 是 有 好 信 息 的 日 子 , 我 们 竟 不 作 声 ! 若 等 到 天 亮 , 罪 必 临 到 我 们 。 来 罢 , 我 们 与 王 家 报 信 去 !

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

they said one: 2 Kings 7:3, Haggai 1:4, Haggai 1:5

this day: 2 Kings 7:6, Isaiah 41:27, Isaiah 52:7, Nahum 1:15, Luke 2:10, Philippians 2:4

some mischief will come upon us: Heb. we shall find punishment, 2 Kings 5:26, 2 Kings 5:27, Numbers 32:23, Proverbs 24:16

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 5:4 - and told his lord 2 Chronicles 20:25 - they found John 1:41 - first John 20:17 - Touch James 2:8 - ye do

Cross-References

Genesis 2:19
From the ground God formed every wild animal and every bird in the sky, and he brought them to the man so the man could name them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came.
Genesis 7:9
came to Noah. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:11
When Noah was six hundred years old, the flood started. On the seventeenth day of the second month of that year the underground springs split open, and the clouds in the sky poured out rain.
Genesis 7:12
The rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:16
One male and one female of every living thing came, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.
Isaiah 65:25
Wolves and lambs will eat together in peace. Lions will eat hay like oxen, and a snake on the ground will not hurt anyone. They will not hurt or destroy each other on all my holy mountain," says the Lord .
Jeremiah 8:7
Even the birds in the sky know the right times to do things. The storks, doves, swifts, and thrushes know when it is time to migrate. But my people don't know what the Lord wants them to do.
Galatians 3:28
In Christ, there is no difference between Jew and Greek, slave and free person, male and female. You are all the same in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:11
In the new life there is no difference between Greeks and Jews, those who are circumcised and those who are not circumcised, or people who are foreigners, or Scythians. There is no difference between slaves and free people. But Christ is in all believers, and Christ is all that is important.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then they said one to another, we do not well,.... This is not right, to take this booty to ourselves; it is not doing justice to our brethren, and it may not prove well to ourselves in the issue:

this day is a day of good tidings; to be delivered from the enemy, and have such plenty of provisions thrown into their hands; it would be joyful tidings to the inhabitants of the city, did they know it:

and we hold our peace; and do not publish this good tidings, that others may share the benefit of it:

if we tarry till the morning light; when it will in course be discovered:

some mischief will come upon us; either from the Syrians, who they might fear would return by that time, or some of them lurking about would fall upon them and destroy them; or the king of Israel, when he came to know it, would be so incensed as to inflict some punishment on them; or they might expect some evil from the immediate hand of God:

now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household; acquaint some of his servants with what had happened.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The lepers began to think that if they kept this important matter secret during the whole night for their own private advantage, when the morning came they would be found out, accused, and punished (see margin).


 
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