2 Kings 7:4
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
KJV
sive ingredi voluerimus civitatem, fame moriemur : sive manserimus hic, moriendum nobis est : venite ergo, et transfugiamus ad castra Syriæ : si pepercerint nobis, vivemus : si autem occidere voluerint, nihilominus moriemur.
Vulgate
ἐὰν εἴπωμεν Εἰσέλθωμεν εἰς τὴν πόλιν, καὶ ὁ λιμὸς ἐν τῇ πόλει καὶ ἀποθανούμεθα ἐκεῖ· καὶ ἐὰν καθίσωμεν ὧδε, καὶ ἀποθανούμεθα. καὶ νῦν δεῦτε καὶ ἐμπέσωμεν εἰς τὴν παρεμβολὴν Συρίας· ἐὰν ξωογονήσωσιν ἡμᾶς, καὶ ζησόμεθα· καὶ ἐὰν θανατώσωσιν ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἀποθανούμεθα.
LXX
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
ASV
אִם אָמַרְנוּ֩ נָב֨וֹא הָ/עִ֜יר וְ/הָ/רָעָ֤ב בָּ/עִיר֙ וָ/מַ֣תְנוּ שָׁ֔ם וְ/אִם יָשַׁ֥בְנוּ פֹ֖ה וָ/מָ֑תְנוּ וְ/עַתָּ֗ה לְכוּ֙ וְ/נִפְּלָה֙ אֶל מַחֲנֵ֣ה אֲרָ֔ם אִם יְחַיֻּ֣/נוּ נִֽחְיֶ֔ה וְ/אִם יְמִיתֻ֖/נוּ וָ/מָֽתְנוּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
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Cross-references
- 2Kgs 7:3 — And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
- 2Sam 14:14 — For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from hi
- Esth 4:16 — Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto
- Jer 14:18 — If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land
- Jonah 3:9 — Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
- Luke 15:17 — And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!