2 Kings 7:7
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So they got up and fled in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.
Read 2 Kings 7:7 Using Other Translations
Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
So they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.
So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives.
What does 2 Kings 7:7 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
2 Kings 7:7
Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight
Or in the dark, as the Targum; when the twilight was going off;
so that the lepers came very quickly after they were gone, (
2 Kings 7:5 )
and left their tents, and their horses, and their
asses;
such was their fright, that they could not stay to loose their
cattle, with which they might have made greater speed, but ran
away on foot: and they left
even the camp as it was;
took nothing away with them, either money or provisions:
and fled for their life;
which they imagined to be in great danger.
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