2 Raja-raja 7:12

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sekalipun masih malam, raja bangun juga, lalu berkata kepada para pegawainya: "Baiklah kuterangkan kepadamu apa maksud orang Aram itu terhadap kita. Mereka tahu bahwa kita ini menderita kelaparan, sebab itu mereka keluar dari tempat perkemahan untuk menyembunyikan diri di padang, sambil berpikir: Apabila orang Israel keluar dari dalam kota, kita akan menangkap mereka hidup-hidup, kemudian kita masuk ke dalam kota."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sekalipun masih malam, raja bangun juga, lalu berkata kepada para pegawainya: "Baiklah kuterangkan kepadamu apa maksud orang Aram itu terhadap kita. Mereka tahu bahwa kita ini menderita kelaparan, sebab itu mereka keluar dari tempat perkemahan untuk menyembunyikan diri di padang, sambil berpikir: Apabila orang Israel keluar dari dalam kota, kita akan menangkap mereka hidup-hidup, kemudian kita masuk ke dalam kota."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka bangunlah baginda pada malam, lalu titahnya kepada segala hambanya: Sekarang aku mau memberitahu kamu, kita hendak dipengapakan orang Syam itu: bahwa diketahuinya perut kita berlapar, sebab itu mereka itu telah keluar dari tempat tentara itu hendak menyembunyikan dirinya di padang, katanya: Apabila mereka itu sudah keluar dari dalam negeri, dapatlah kita menangkap dia dengan hidupnya, lalu kita akan masuk ke dalam negeri itu.

Contextual Overview

¹² And the king arose in the night, & sayde vnto his seruauntes: I wil shewe you nowe what the Syrians haue done vnto vs: They knowe that we be hungrie, and therefore are they gone out of the pauillions to hyde them selues in the fielde, saying: When they come out of the citie, we shall catche them alyue, and get in to the citie. ¹³ And one of his seruauntes aunswered, and sayde: Let men take I pray you fyue of the horses that remayne and are left in the multitude: (Beholde they are euen as all the multitude of Israel that are left in the citie: Beholde [I say] they are euen as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed) and we will send, and see. ¹⁴ They toke therfore the horses of two charets, and the king sent after the hoast of the Syrians, saying: Go, and see. ¹⁵ And they went after them euen vnto Iordane, and lo, all the way was full of clothes, and vessels, which the Syrians had cast from them in their haste: And the messengers returned, and tolde the king. ¹⁶ And the people went out, and spoyled the tentes of the Syrians: And so it came to passe that a bushell of fyne flowre was solde for a sicle, and two bushelles of barlye for a sicle, according to the worde of the Lorde. ¹⁷ And the king appoynted that lorde (on whose hand he leaned) to be at the gate: And the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed according to the word of the man of God whiche he sayde when the king came downe to him. ¹⁸ And so came the thing to passe, that the man of God had spoken to the king, saying: Two bushels of barlye for a sicle, and a bushell of fyne flowre for another shalbe to morowe this tyme in the gate of Samaria. ¹⁹ Whervnto that lorde aunswered the man of God, and sayde: Yea and if the Lorde made windowes in heauen, might it come to passe? And he sayd: Beholde, thou shalt see it with thyne eyes, and shalt not eate thereof. ²⁰ And euen so chaunced it vnto him: For the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed.

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Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
For after seuen dayes, I wyl rayne vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes: & all substaunce that I haue made, wyll I destroy from the vpper face of the earth.

Genesis 7:17
And the fludde came fourtie dayes vpon the earth, and the waters were increased, and bare vp the arke, whiche was lyft vp aboue the earth.

Exodus 24:18
And Moyses went into the middes of the cloude, and gate hym vp into the moutaine: & Moyses was in the mount fourtie dayes and fourtie nyghtes.

Deuteronomy 9:9
When I was gone vp into the mount, to receaue the tables of stone, the tables of the couenaunt which the Lord made with you, and I abode in the mount fourtie dayes & fourtie nightes, whe I neither did eate bread nor drinke water.

Deuteronomy 9:18
And I fell downe flat before the Lord euen as at the first time, & fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes I did neither eate bread nor drinke water, because of all your sinnes which ye sinned, in doyng wyckedly in the sight of the Lorde in that ye prouoked hym vnto wrath.

Deuteronomy 10:10
And I taryed in the mount, euen as at the first time, fourtie dayes and fourtie nyghtes: and the Lorde hearde me at that tyme also, and the Lorde would not destroy thee.

1 Kings 19:8
And he arose, and dyd eate and drinke, & walked in the strength of that meate fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, euen vnto Horeb the mount of God.

Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted fourtie dayes, and fourtie nightes, he was afterwarde an hungred.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king arose in the night,.... Upon the report made to him:

and he said unto his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us; taking it to be a stratagem of theirs to decoy them:

they know that we be hungry; and would be glad to come out of the city to get some food:

therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field; to make us believe that they have broke up the siege, and have deserted the camp, and are gone, when they only lie in ambush:

saying, when they come out of the city; which they supposed they would do through hunger:

we shall catch them alive; take them captive at once:

and get into the city; being open to let them out, and receive them on their return.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His servants - i. e., “high officers of the household,” not mere domestics.

I will shew you what the Syrians have done - Jehoram sees in the deserted camp a stratagem like that connected with the taking of Ai Joshua 8:3-19. The suspicion was a very natural one, since the Israelites knew of no reason why the Syrians should have raised the siege.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 7:12. The king arose in the night — This king had made a noble defence; he seems to have shared in all the sufferings of the besieged, and to have been ever at his post. Even in vile Ahab there were some good things!

They know that we be hungry — This was a very natural conclusion; the Syrians by the closest blockade could not induce them to give up the city, but knowing that they were in a starving condition, they might make use of such a stratagem as that imagined by the king, in order to get possession of the city.