Verse 9

Then they said to one another, We are not doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we say nothing: if we go on waiting here till the morning, punishment will come to us. So let us go and give the news to those of the king's house.

Referenced Verses

  • Num 32:23 : 23 But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.
  • 2 Kgs 5:26-27 : 26 And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants? 27 Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.
  • 2 Kgs 7:3 : 3 Now there were four lepers seated at the doorway into the town: and they said to one another, Why are we waiting here for death?
  • 2 Kgs 7:6 : 6 For the Lord had made the sound of carriages and horses, and the noise of a great army, come to the ears of the Aramaeans, so that they said to one another, Truly, the king of Israel has got the kings of the Hittites and of the Egyptians for a price to make an attack on us.
  • Prov 24:16 : 16 For an upright man, after falling seven times, will get up again: but trouble is the downfall of the evil.
  • Isa 41:27 : 27 I was the first to give word of it to Zion, and I gave the good news to Jerusalem.
  • Isa 52:7 : 7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
  • Hag 1:4-5 : 4 Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste? 5 For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.
  • Luke 2:10 : 10 And the angel said, Have no fear; for truly, I give you good news of great joy which will be for all the people:
  • Phil 2:4 : 4 Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.