2 Raja-raja 7:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Jika kita berkata: Baiklah kita masuk ke kota, padahal dalam kota ada kelaparan, kita akan mati di sana. Dan jika kita tinggal di sini, kita akan mati juga. Jadi sekarang, marilah kita menyeberang ke perkemahan tentara Aram. Jika mereka membiarkan kita hidup, kita akan hidup, dan jika mereka mematikan kita, kita akan mati."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Jika kita berkata: Baiklah kita masuk ke kota, padahal dalam kota ada kelaparan, kita akan mati di sana. Dan jika kita tinggal di sini, kita akan mati juga. Jadi sekarang, marilah kita menyeberang ke perkemahan tentara Aram. Jika mereka membiarkan kita hidup, kita akan hidup, dan jika mereka mematikan kita, kita akan mati."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Jikalau kata kita: Mari kita masuk ke dalam negeri, maka dalam negeri adalah bala kelaparan, niscaya kita akan mati kelak di sana; dan jikalau kiranya kita tinggal di sini, tak dapat tiada kita mati juga; sebab itu, mari kita membuang diri kita kepada tentara orang Syam, jikalau dihidupinya akan kita, maka kitapun hiduplah, dan jikalau dibunuhnya akan kita, tak dapat tiada kita akan mati juga.

Contextual Overview

³ And there were foure leperous men at the entring in of the gate: And they sayd one to another, Why sit we here vntill we dye? ⁴ If we say, we will enter into the citie: behold, the dearth is in the citie, and we shal die therin: And if we sit stil here, we dye also. Nowe therfore come, and let vs fall vpon the hoast of the Syrians: If they saue our liues, we shall lyue: If they kill vs, then are we dead. ⁵ And they rose vp in the twylight to go to the hoast of the Syrians: And when they were come to the vtmost part of the hoast of Syria, behold there was no man there. ⁶ For the Lorde had made the hoast of the Syrians to heare a noyse of charets, & a noyse of horses, & the noyse of a great hoast: Insomuch that they sayde one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hyred against vs the kinges of the Hethites, and the kinges of the Egyptians, to come vpon vs. ⁷ Wherfore they arose, and fled in the twylight, and left their tentes, their horses, and their asses, and the fielde which they had pitched, euen as it was, and fled for their lyues. ⁸ And when these lepers came to the edge of the hoast, they went into a tent, and did eate and drinke, and caried thence siluer, and golde, and rayment, & went and hyd it: and came againe and entred into another tent, and caried thence also, and went and hyd it. ⁹ Then sayde one to another: We do not well this day, forasmuche as it is a day to bring good tydinges, and we holde our peace. If we tarie till the day light, some mischiefe wil come vpon vs: Now therfore come, that we may go and tell the kinges housholde. ¹⁰ And so they came, and called vnto the porter of the citie, and told them, saying: We came to the pauillions of the Syrians, and see there was no man there, neither voyce of man, but horses & asses tyed, and the tentes were euen as they were wont to be. ¹¹ And so the man called vnto the porters, and they told the kinges house within.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we will enter: Jeremiah 14:18

let us fall: 1 Chronicles 12:19, Jeremiah 37:13, Jeremiah 37:14

if they save us: Esther 4:16, Jeremiah 8:14, Jonah 3:9, Luke 15:17-19

we shall but die: 2 Samuel 14:14, Hebrews 9:27

Reciprocal: Genesis 43:8 - that we 1 Kings 20:31 - peradventure 2 Kings 6:25 - a great famine 2 Kings 7:3 - Why 2 Kings 7:13 - they are even 1 Chronicles 21:13 - I am in Matthew 8:2 - a leper Luke 15:18 - will arise

Cross-References

Genesis 2:5
And euery plant of the fielde before it was in the earth, and euery hearbe of the fielde before it grewe. For the Lord God had not [yet] caused it to rayne vppon the earth, neither [was there] a man to tyll the grounde.

Genesis 6:3
And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres.

Genesis 6:7
And the Lorde sayde: I wyll from the vpper face of the earth, destroy man whom I haue created, from man vnto cattell, vnto worme, and vnto foules of the ayre: For it repenteth me that I haue made them.

Genesis 6:13
And God sayd vnto Noah: the ende of all fleshe is come before me, for the earth is fylled with crueltie through them, and beholde I wyl destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 6:17
And beholde, I, euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen, and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe.

Genesis 7:10
And so it came to passe after seuen dayes, that the waters of the flud were vpon the earth.

Genesis 7:11
In the sixe hundreth yere of Noahs lyfe, in the seconde moneth, the seuenteene day of ye moneth, in the same day were all the fountaynes of the great deepe broken vp, and the wyndowes of heauen were opened.

Genesis 7:12
And the rayne was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.

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.

Genesis 7:21
And all fleshe perished, that moued vpon the earth, in foule, in cattell, in beast, and in euery worme that creepeth vpon the earth, yea, and euery man also.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 sit here, we die also; having nothing to eat to support nature:

now therefore let us come, and fall unto the host of the Syrians; put ourselves into their hands, and lie at their mercy:

if they save us alive, we shall live; if they do not put us to death, but give us bread to eat, our lives will be preserved:

and if they kill us, we shall but die; which we must inevitably do, whether we stay here, or go into the city.