2 Kings 7:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But one of his servants responded, ‘Please, let messengers take five of the horses that are left in the city. Their fate is like the entire Israelite community who will die,  so let’s send them and see.’

Cross References

Lamentations 4:9

Those slain by the sword are better off than those slain by hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out to the field, look #– #those slain by the sword! If I enter the city, look #– #those ill  from famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.

2 Kings 7:4

If we say, “Let’s go into the city,” we will die there because the famine is in the city, but if we sit here, we will also die. So now, come on. Let’s surrender to the Arameans’ camp.  If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.’

2 Kings 6:33

While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger  came down to him. Then he said, ‘This disaster is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer? ’

2 Kings 5:13

But his servants approached and said to him, ‘My father,  if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more should you do it when he only tells you, “Wash and be clean”? ’

2 Kings 7:12

So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, ‘Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving,  so they have left the camp to hide in the open country, thinking, “When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and go into the city.” ’

2 Kings 7:14

The messengers took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, ‘Go and see.’