2 Kings 7:3-5 ▼

3 Now four men with a skin disease were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, |Why are we just sitting here waiting to die?

4 If we go into the city, we'll die of starvation, and if we stay here we'll die! So come on, let's defect to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, we'll live; if they kill us--well, we were going to die anyway.|

5 So they started toward the Syrian camp at dusk. When they reached the edge of the Syrian camp, there was no one there.