Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - 2 King 7:8 - 7:8

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - 2 King 7:8 - 7:8


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When these lepers (these, pointing back to 2Ki 7:3.) came into the camp which the Syrians had left, they first of all satisfied their own hunger with the provisions which they found in the tents, and then took different valuables and concealed them. But their consciences were soon aroused, so that they said: We are not doing right; this day is a day of joyful tidings: if we are silent and wait till the morning light, guilt will overtake us; “for it is the duty of citizens to make known things relating to public safety” (Grotius). They then resolved to announce the joyful event in the king's palace, and reported it to the watchman at the city gate. הָעִיר שֹׁעֵר stands as a generic term in a collective sense for the persons who watched at the gate; hence the following plural לָהֶם, and in 2Ki 7:11 הַשֹּׁעֲרִים. “And the gate-keepers cried out (what they had heard) and reported it in the king's palace.”