2 Kings 7:4 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | KJV

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 host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

Commentaries

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century

Anglican

19th Century

Fall to — i.e., desert, go over to.

If they save us alive. — And give us food, for pity’s sake.

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

If we say we will enter into the city
Contrary to the law which forbid them:

then the famine is i…

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

God can, when he pleases, make the strongest heart tremble; and as for those who will not fear God, he can make them fear at the shaking of a leaf.…

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