2 Kings 7:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Now there were four men with a defiling skin disease outside the city gate who said to one another, “Why should we sit here until we die?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Now four men who were lepers were at the entrance of the city's gate; and they said to one another, Why do we sit here until we die?

American Standard Version (1901)

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?

Common English Bible

³ Now there were four men with skin disease at the entrance to the city. They said to each other, “What are we doing sitting here until we die?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Now there were four lepers beside the entrance of the gate. And they said one to another: "Should we choose to stay here until we die?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Now there were four lepers, at the entering-in of the gate. And they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?

2 Kings 7:3 Cross References

2 Kings 5:1

Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from a skin disease.

2 Kings 7:4

If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there, but if we sit here, we shall also die. Therefore, let us desert to the Aramean camp; if they spare our lives, we shall live, and if they kill us, we shall but die.”

2 Kings 8:4

Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”

Jeremiah 27:13

Why should you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the Lord has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink because we have sinned against the Lord.

Numbers 12:10

When the cloud went away from over the tent, Miriam’s skin had become diseased, as white as snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam and saw that she was diseased.

Numbers 12:14

But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp for seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.”