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Thursday, September 11th, 2025
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Hebrew Names Version

2 Kings 7:11

He called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Prophecy;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Samaria;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jehoram;   Samaria;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gatekeeper;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jehoram;   Samaria;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Porter;   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 - Doorkeeper;   House;   Jehoiakim;   Port;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The gatekeepers called out, and the news was reported to the king’s household.
King James Version
And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
English Standard Version
Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told within the king's household.
New Century Version
Then the gatekeepers shouted out and told the people in the palace.
New English Translation
The gatekeepers relayed the news to the royal palace.
Amplified Bible
Then the gatekeepers called out and it was reported to the king's household inside [the city].
New American Standard Bible
And the gatekeepers called and announced it inside the king's house.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the porters cryed and declared to the Kings house within.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the gatekeepers called and told it within the king's household.
Contemporary English Version
The guards reported the news to the king's palace.
Complete Jewish Bible
The gatekeepers called and told it to the king's household inside.
Darby Translation
And the porters cried [it] and told [it] to the king's house within.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the gatekeepers of the city shouted out and told the people in the king's palace.
George Lamsa Translation
And the doorkeepers called out and told it to the kings household within.
Good News Translation
The guards announced the news, and it was reported in the palace.
Lexham English Bible
Then the gatekeepers called and told it inside the house of the king.
Literal Translation
And he called the gatekeepers, and they told the house of the king inside.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then cried ye porters and tolde it within in ye kynges house.
American Standard Version
And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.
Bible in Basic English
Then the door-keepers, crying out, gave the news to those inside the king's house.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so the man called vnto the porters, and they told the kinges house within.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the porters called, and they told it to the king's household within.
King James Version (1611)
And hee called the porters, and they told it to the kings house within.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the porters cried aloud, and reported to the house of the king within.
English Revised Version
And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s household within.
Berean Standard Bible
The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported to the king's household.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the porteris yeden, and telden in the paleis of the kyng with ynne.
Young's Literal Translation
and he calleth the gatekeepers, and they declare to the house of the king within.
Update Bible Version
And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's household inside.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he called the porters; and they told [it] to the king's house within.
World English Bible
He called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.
New King James Version
And the gatekeepers called out, and they told it to the king's household inside.
New Living Translation
Then the gatekeepers shouted the news to the people in the palace.
New Life Bible
So the men at the gate called out, and the news was heard in the king's house.
New Revised Standard
Then the gatekeepers called out and proclaimed it to the king's household.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the watchers of the gate called and told it to the household of the king, within.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the guards of the gate went, and told it within in the king’s palace.
Revised Standard Version
Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told within the king's household.
THE MESSAGE
The gatekeepers got the word to the royal palace, giving them the whole story. Roused in the middle of the night, the king told his servants, "Let me tell you what Aram has done. They knew that we were starving, so they left camp and have hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we'll capture them alive and take the city.'"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The gatekeepers called and told it within the king's household.

Contextual Overview

3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? 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 to the host of the Aram: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die. 5 They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Aram; and when they were come to the outermost part of the camp of the Aram, behold, there was no man there. 6 For the Lord had made the host of the Aram to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Yisra'el has hired against us the kings of the Hitti, and the kings of the Mitzrim, to come on us. 7 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. 8 When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it; and they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there also, and went and hid it. 9 Then they said one to another, We aren't doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we hold our shalom: if we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. 10 So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Aram, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were. 11 He called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 7:10 - the porter

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so.
Genesis 6:17
I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this eretz, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the eretz will die.
Genesis 7:5
Noach did everything that the LORD commanded him.
Genesis 7:6
Noach was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the eretz.
Genesis 7:8
Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noach's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
Genesis 7:23
Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the eretz. Only Noach was left, and those who were with him in the teivah.
Genesis 7:24
The waters prevailed on the eretz one hundred fifty days.
2 Kings 7:2
Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? He said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.
2 Kings 7:19
and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he called the porters,.... The porter of the city called to the porters of the king's palace:

and they told it to the king's house within; to some of his domestic servants within the palace, and they reported it to the king.


 
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