2 Kings 7:15

15 And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.

2 Kings 7:15 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 7:15

And they went after them unto Jordan
Not finding them in the camp, and knowing the rout they would take to their own land, they went as far as Jordan, over which they must pass:

and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels which the Syrians
had cast away in their haste;
in their fright and flight, such of their clothes as hindered them in running; and their armour, as Josephus ^F3 seems rightly to understand the word used, these they threw away for quicker dispatch:

and the messengers returned and told the king:
that it was as the lepers said, and what they themselves had seen.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 9. c. 4. sect. 5.)

2 Kings 7:15 In-Context

13 But one of his servants replied, “Please, have scouts take five of the horses that remain in the city. Their plight will be no worse than all the Israelites who are left here. You can see that all the Israelites here are doomed. So let us send them and find out.”

14 Then the scouts took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, “Go and see.”

15 And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.

16 Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. It was then that a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.

17 Now the king had appointed the officer on whose arm he leaned to be in charge of the gate, but the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king had come to him.