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They think that we will leave the city to find food, and then they will take us alive and capture the city." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_kings/7-12.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/2_kings/7-12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_kings/7-12.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/1.htm">2 Kings</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/7.htm">Chapter 7</a> > Verse 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/7-11.htm" title="2 Kings 7:11">◄</a> 2 Kings 7:12 <a href="../2_kings/7-13.htm" title="2 Kings 7:13">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_kings/7.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_kings/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />It was still night, but the king got out of bed and said to his officials, "I'll tell you what the Syrians are planning! They know about the famine here, so they have left their camp to go and hide in the countryside. They think that we will leave the city to find food, and then they will take us alive and capture the city." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The king got up in the night, and said to his servants, “I will tell you what the Arameans have prepared against us. They know that we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.’”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_kings/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The king got out of bed and said to his officers, "I know what those Syrians are doing. They know we're starving, so they're hiding in the fields, hoping we will go out to look for food. When we do, they can capture us and take over our city." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_kings/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Though it was night, the king got up; he said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. Knowing that we are starving, they have left their camp to hide in the field. They are thinking, ‘The Israelites will leave the city and we will take them alive and enter it.’ ”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he arose in the night, and said to his servants: I tell you what the Syrians have done to us: They know that we suffer great famine, and therefore they are gone out of the camp, and lie hid in the fields, saying: When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and then we may get into the city.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And he arose in the night, and said to his servants: I tell you what the Syrians have done to us: They know that we suffer great famine, and therefore they are gone out of the camp, and lie hid in the fields, saying: When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and then we may get into the city.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/7.htm">The Siege Lifted</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>Then the guards of the gate went, and told it within in the king's palace. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl">And he arose in the night, and said to his servants: I tell you what the Syrians have done to us: They know that we suffer great famine, and therefore they are gone out of the camp, and lie hid in the fields, saying: When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and then we may get into the city.</span><span class="reftext">13</span>And one of his servants answered: Let us take the five horses that are remaining in the city (because there are no more in the whole multitude of Israel, for the rest are consumed), and let us send and see.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../joshua/8-4.htm">Joshua 8:4</a></span><br />And commanded them, saying: Lay an ambush behind the city: and go not very far from it: and be ye all ready.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/6-25.htm">2 Kings 6:25</a></span><br />And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the siege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeons' dung, for five pieces of silver.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/7-11.htm">2 Kings 7:11</a></span><br />Then the guards of the gate went, and told it within in the king's palace.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/7-13.htm">2 Kings 7:13</a></span><br />And one of his servants answered: Let us take the five horses that are remaining in the city (because there are no more in the whole multitude of Israel, for the rest are consumed), and let us send and see.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table 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camp capture city city' come countryside done field from get gone got have hide his hungry I in into king know left night now of officers out said saying servants so starving surely take tell that The them themselves then therefore They thinking to up us we what When will<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-12.htm">OT History: 2 Kings 7:12 The king arose in the night (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_kings/7-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 7:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 7:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_kings/7-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 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