2 Kings 7:12-14

Good News Translation

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.”

¹³ 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.”^{[a] 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.