3. Four men with skin diseases were at the entrance of the city gate. One of them asked, “Why are we sitting here waiting to die?
4. If we go into the city, the famine is also there, and we’ll still die. But if we stay here, we’ll die. So let’s go to the Aramean camp. If they give us something to keep us alive, we’ll live. But if they kill us, we’ll die anyway.”
5. So they started out at dusk to go into the Aramean camp. When they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there.
6. (The Lord had made the Aramean army hear what sounded like chariots, horses, and a large army. The Aramean soldiers said to one another, “The king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to attack us!”