Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Kings 7:12

"And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city." — 2 Kings 7:12 (ASV)

I will now show you. —“Suspicax est miseria” (Grotius). Such stratagems as Jehoram suspected are, however, common enough in warfare.

To hide themselves in the field. —Both expressions in the Hebrew follow the later modes of inflection. Such forms may be due to transcribers rather than to the original writer.