Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?" — 2 Kings 7:3 (ASV)
And there were four leprous men. —Literally, And four men were lepers.
At the entering in of the gate. —And so outside of the city. (Numbers 5:2–3.) Rashi says they were Gehazi and his sons (!)
Why sit we? —Or, Why are we abiding? Nobody brought them food any longer, owing to the pressure of the famine.