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And the officer on whose hand the king rested, answered Elisaie, and said, Behold, the Lord shall make flood-gates in heaven, might this thing be? and Elisaie said, Behold, thou shalt see with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
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And there were four leprous men by the gate of the city: and one said to his neighbour, Why sit we here until we die?
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If we should say, Let us go into the city, then famine in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit here, then we shall die. Now then come, and let us fall upon the camp of the Syrians: if they should take us alive, then we shall live; and if they should put us to death, then we shall die.
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And they rose up while it was yet night, to go into the camp of Syria; and they came into a part of the camp of Syria, and behold, there no man there.
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For the Lord had made the army of Syria to hear a sound of chariots, and a sound of horses, the sound of a great host: and man said to his fellow, Now has the king of Israel hired against us the kings of the Chettites, and the kings of Egypt, to come against us.