II. Kinas

2Then a c¢xlord on whose hand the king leaned answered -the _man_of x=God, and said, “Behold, if! the Lorp 4would_make-_ windows in ¢x-heaven, might xthis xthing be?” And he said, “Behold, thou shalt_see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.”
3 And there_were four leprous ~ men at the_entering_in_of the gate: and they said one to another, “ Why asit we here until we die?
4 If we say, ‘We will_enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we *shall_die there: and if we «sit_still here, we -die also. Now therefore -come, and let_us_fall unto the_ca host_of the Syrians : if they tsave_us_alive, we shall_ He; and if they 'kill us, we :shall_but_
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5 And they rose_up in the twilight, to go unto the_camp-_of the Syrians:
and when they were_come to the_utter- most_part_of the_camp_of Syria, be- hold, there was no iman there.
6 For 4 the =Lord had_made -the_ host_of the Syrians to_hear a noise_of chariots, and a noise_of horses, even the_noise_of a great fhost: and they said one to another, “Lo, the_king_of Israél shath_hired against us -the_ kings_of the Hittites, and -the_kings_ of the Egyptians, to come upon us.”
7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their ~asses, even the camp acas it was, and fled for their so life.
8 And when xthese xlepers came to the_uttermost_part_of the camp, they went into one tent, and did_eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came_again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid if.
9 Then they said one to another, “ Ge 4do not well: xthis xday is a day_of good_tidings, and twe hold_our_peace : if we -tarry till the morning light, some Ppmischief -will.come_upon us: now therefore :come, that we may_go and tell the king’s household.”
10 So they came and called unto the_ porter_of the city : and they told them, saying, “We came to the_camp_of the Syrians, and, behold, there was noiman there, neither voice of 4 man, but xhorses tied, and xasses tied, and the tents «cas they were.”
li And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house with-
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12 And the king arose in_the_night, and said unto his servants, “I will now shew you «what the Syrians -have_done tous. They know that we be hungry ; therefore are they gone out_ofthe camp to hide_themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they tcome_out of the city, we shall_catch them alive, and get into the city.’ ”
13 And one of his servants answered and said, “tLet_some_take, I_pray_ thee, five of the horses that remain, which are_left in the city, (behold, they are as all the_multitude_of Israel that are_left in it: behold, I say, they are