If we say we will enter into the city
 Contrary to the law which forbid them: 
 then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there;
 not being able to obtain food to preserve life: 
 and if we sit here, we die also;
 having nothing to eat to support nature: 
 now therefore let us come, and fall unto the host of the Syrians;
 put ourselves into their hands, and lie at their mercy: 
 if they save us alive, we shall live;
 if they do not put us to death, but give us bread to eat, our lives will be preserved: 
 and if they kill us, we shall but die;
 which we must inevitably do, whether we stay here, or go into the city.