2 Kings 7:4-6

Christian Standard Bible

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.^(A) If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”

⁵ So the diseased men got up at twilight to go to the Arameans’ camp. When they came to the camp’s edge, they discovered that no one was there, ⁶ for the Lord^[a] had caused the Aramean camp to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a large army.^(B) The Arameans had said to each other, “The king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites^(C) and the kings of Egypt^(D) to attack us.”