2 Kings 7:13

Good News Translation

One of his officials said, “The people here in the city are doomed anyway, like those that have already died. So let's send some men with five of the horses that are left, so that we can find out what has happened.”

Cross References

2 Kings 5:13

His servants went up to him and said, “Sir, if the prophet had told you to do something difficult, you would have done it. Now why can't you just wash yourself, as he said, and be cured?”

2 Kings 6:33

He had hardly finished saying this, when the king arrived and said, “It's the Lord who has brought this trouble on us! Why should I wait any longer for him to do something?”

2 Kings 7:12

It was still night, but the king got out of bed and said to his officials, “I'll tell you what the Syrians are planning! They know about the famine here, so they have left their camp to go and hide in the countryside. They think that we will leave the city to find food, and then they will take us alive and capture the city.”

2 Kings 7:14

They chose some men, and the king sent them in two chariots with instructions to go and find out what had happened to the Syrian army.

2 Kings 7:4

It's no use going into the city, because we would starve to death in there; but if we stay here, we'll die also. So let's go to the Syrian camp; the worst they can do is kill us, but maybe they will spare our lives.”

Jeremiah 14:18

When I go out in the fields, I see the bodies of men killed in war; when I go into the towns, I see people starving to death. Prophets and priests carry on their work, but they don't know what they are doing.”

Lamentations 4:9

Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later, who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.