2 Kings 7:12 meaning and explanation
So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”
2 Kings 7:12, Berean Standard Bible
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The king of Israel, besieged in Samaria and hearing the report of the empty Aramean camp, cannot believe good news. He assumes a trap: the enemy knows the city is starving, so they have hidden in the fields to lure people out and seize the city.
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