2 Kings 7:7

7 So they got up and ran away in the twilight, leaving their tents, horses, and donkeys. They left the camp standing and ran for their lives.

2 Kings 7:7 Meaning and Commentary

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.

2 Kings 7:7 In-Context

5 So they got up at twilight and went to the Aramean camp, but when they arrived, no one was there.

6 The Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a large army. They had said to each other, "The king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to attack us!"

7 So they got up and ran away in the twilight, leaving their tents, horses, and donkeys. They left the camp standing and ran for their lives.

8 When the men with the skin disease came to the edge of the camp, they went into one of the tents and ate and drank. They carried silver, gold, and clothes out of the camp and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent. They carried things from this tent and hid them, also.

9 Then they said to each other, "We're doing wrong. Today we have good news, but we are silent. If we wait until the sun comes up, we'll be discovered. Let's go right now and tell the people in the king's palace."