2 Kings 7:4
“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 unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
If we say we will enter into the city,.... Contrary to the law which forbid them:
then the famine is in the city, and…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–17142 Kings 7:3-11
We are here told,
I. How the siege of Samaria was raised in the evening, at the edge of night (Kg2 7:6, Kg2 7:7), not by…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
let us fall unto the host of the Syrians These wrecks of humanity use the language which would be used by hale men who…
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