So they got up and fled at twilight, and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys—indeed the camp itself, just as it was; and they fled for their lives.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
- KJV Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
- BSB Thus the Arameans had arisen and fled at twilight, abandoning their tents and horses and donkeys. The camp was intact, and they had run for their lives.
- NKJV Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact—their tents, their horses, and their donkeys—and they fled for their lives.
- NLT So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives.
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Quick answer
The Syrians abandon their camp and flee for their lives in the twilight. Their disorderly flight leaves all their supplies behind.
Overview
Gripped by God-given fear, the army deserts tents, horses, and provisions to save themselves. The wholesale abandonment provides exactly the plenty Elisha had promised the famished city. The rout displays how easily the Lord dissolves the might that besieged Samaria. It confirms that the coming abundance is wholly God's gift, not Israel's conquest.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 48:4–6For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.
- Prov 28:1The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
- Heb 6:18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
- Ps 33:17A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power.
- Prov 21:1The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
- Matt 24:16–18then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
- Ps 20:7–8Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the name of Yahweh our God.
- Prov 6:5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
- Isa 2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
- Amos 2:14–16Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
- Num 35:11–12then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
- Job 18:11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
- Jer 48:8–9The destroyer will come on every city, and no city will escape; the valley also will perish, and the plain will be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.
- Ps 68:12“Kings of armies flee! They flee!” She who waits at home divides the plunder,
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