Discovery Box2 Kings 7:4 
Context7:4 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
2 Kings 8:1
ContextElisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman
8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, 5 for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”
2 Kings 18:32
Context18:32 until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, “The Lord will rescue us.”
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.
5 tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”
