2 Kings 7:5

New American Bible - revised edition

At twilight they left for the Arameans; but when they reached the edge of the camp, no one was there.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:7

The Lord will beat down before you the enemies that rise up against you; they will come out against you from one direction, and flee before you in seven.

Ezekiel 12:12

The prince among them shall shoulder his load in darkness and go out through the hole they dug in the wall to bring him out. His face shall be covered so that he cannot even see the ground.

1 Samuel 30:17

From dawn to sundown the next day David attacked them, allowing no one to escape except four hundred young men, who mounted their camels and fled.

Deuteronomy 32:30

“How could one rout a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, Unless it was because their Rock sold them, the Lord delivered them up?”

Deuteronomy 32:25

Out in the street the sword shall bereave, and at home the terror For the young man and the young woman alike, the nursing babe as well as the gray beard.

Leviticus 27:26

Note that a firstborn animal, which as such already belongs to the Lord, may not be dedicated. Whether an ox or a sheep, it is the Lord’s.

Leviticus 27:8

However, if the one who made the vow is too poor to meet the sum, the person must be set before the priest, who shall determine a value; the priest will do this in keeping with the means of the one who made the vow.

2 Kings 7:4

If we decide to go into the city, we shall die there, for there is famine in the city. If we remain here, we shall die too. So come, let us desert to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we live; if they kill us, we die.”

2 Kings 7:6

The Lord had caused the army of the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots and horses, the sound of a large army, and they had reasoned among themselves, “The king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to fight us.”