3Four leprous men were at the entrance of the gate, and one said to his neighbor, "What are we doing sitting here until we die?"4If we say, 'We will enter the city,' the famine is in the city and we will die there; but if we remain here, we will die. Now therefore come, and let us fall upon the camp of Aram. If they preserve our lives, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall die.5They rose at twilight to go to the camp of Aram. When they came to the edge of the camp of Aram, behold, there was no man there.6For the LORD had caused the camp of Aram to hear the sound of chariots, the sound of horses, and the sound of a great army, so that a man said to his brother, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us."7They rose and fled at twilight. They abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys—the camp just as it was—and fled for their lives.8These leprous men came to the edge of the camp. They entered one tent, ate and drank, carried away from there silver, gold, and garments, went and hid them, returned, entered another tent, carried away from there, went, and hid them.9One said to his neighbor, "What we are doing is not right. This day is a day of good news. If we keep silent and wait until the morning light, iniquity will find us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell it in the king's house."10They went and called to the gatekeeper of the city and reported to him, saying, "We came to the camp of Aram, and behold, there was no man there, nor the voice of man, but only the horse tied and the donkey tied and the tents just as they were."11The gatekeepers called out and reported inside the king's house.12The king arose during the night and said to his servants, "Let me tell you what Aram has done to us. They know that we are hungry, so they went out from the camp to hide in the field, saying, 'When they come out of the city, we will seize them alive and enter the city.'"13One of his servants answered and said, "Let five of the remaining horses that remain in it be taken. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel that remains in it; behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel that has perished. Let us send and see."14They took two chariot horses, and the king sent after the camp of Aram, saying, "Go and see."15They went after them as far as the Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of garments and articles that Aram had thrown away in their haste. The messengers returned and reported to the king.16The people went out and plundered the camp of Aram. A seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.17The king had appointed the officer who leaned on his hand over the gate. The people trampled him at the gate, and he died, just as the man of God had spoken when the king came down to him.18It happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, "Two seahs of barley will be sold for a shekel and a seah of fine flour for a shekel tomorrow at this time in the gate of Samaria."19The officer answered the man of God and said, "Behold, if the LORD makes windows in heaven, will this thing be?" And he said, "Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but you will not eat from it."20And it happened to him just so: the people trampled him at the gate, and he died.