2 Kings 7:5

5 So at twilight they set out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there!

2 Kings 7:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 7:5

And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the
Syrians
, The dusk of the evening, or the evening twilight, as appears from ( 2 Kings 7:9 2 Kings 7:12 ) ,

and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria;
not the further part of it, but the edge or border of it nearest to them:

behold, there was no man there;
no sentinel or guard, which they expected, and to whom they would have surrendered themselves.

2 Kings 7:5 In-Context

3 Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance of the city gates. “Why should we sit here waiting to die?” they asked each other.

4 “We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.”

5 So at twilight they set out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there!

6 For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses and the sounds of a great army approaching. “The king of Israel has hired the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us!” they cried to one another.

7 So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives.