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Now there were four ^(C1)leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, "Why are we sitting here until we die?

"If we say, 'We will enter the city,' then the famine is in the city and we will die there; but if we sit here, we will also die. Now then come, and let's go over to ^(C1)the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, then we will die."

So they got up at twilight to go to the camp of the Arameans; when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Arameans, behold, there was no one there.

For ^(C1)the Lord had made the army of the Arameans hear a sound of chariots, a sound of horses, that is, the sound of a great army; and they said to one another, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired ^(C2)the kings of the Hittites and ^(C3)the kings of the Egyptians against us, to ^(F1)attack us!"

So they ^(C1)got up and fled at twilight, and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys—indeed the camp itself, just as it was; and they fled for their lives.

When these men with leprosy came to the outskirts of the camp, they entered one tent and ate and drank, and ^(C1)carried from there silver, gold, and clothes, and they went and hid them; then they returned and entered another tent, and carried valuables from there also, and went and hid them.