2 Kings 7:4

7:4 If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, 1  and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect 2  to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, 3  we’ll live; if they kill us – well, we were going to die anyway.” 4 

1 tn Heb “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city and we will die there.”

2 tn Heb “fall.”

3 tn Heb “keep us alive.”

4 tn Heb “we will die.” The paraphrastic translation attempts to bring out the logical force of their reasoning.