2 Kings 7:3-11

³ Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate ; and they said to one another , "Why do we sit here until we die ? ⁴ "If we say , 'We will enter the city ,' then the famine is in the city and we will die there ; and if we sit here , we die also. Now therefore come , and let us go over to the camp of the Arameans . If they spare us, we will live ; and if they kill us, we will but die ." ⁵ They arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Arameans ; when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Arameans , behold , there was no one there . ⁶ For the Lord had caused the army of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses , even the sound of a great army , so that they said to one another , "Behold , the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians , to come upon us." ⁷ Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight , and left their tents and their horses and their donkeys , even the camp just as it was, and fled for their life . ⁸ When these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp , they entered one tent and ate and drank , and carried from there silver and gold and clothes , and went and hid them; and they returned and entered another tent and carried from there also, and went and hid them. ⁹ Then they said to one another , "We are not doing right . This day is a day of good news , but we are keeping silent ; if we wait until morning light , punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come , let us go and tell the king's household ." ¹⁰ So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city , and they told them, saying , "We came to the camp of the Arameans , and behold , there was no one there , nor the voice of man , only e the horses tied and the donkeys tied , and the tents just as they were." ¹¹ The gatekeepers called and told it within the king's household .