2 Kings 7:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So they got up and went in flight, in the half light, without their tents or their horses or their asses or any of their goods; they went in flight, fearing for their lives.

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  • Ps 48:4-6 : 4 For see! the kings came together by agreement, they were joined together. 5 They saw it, and so were full of wonder; they were troubled, and went quickly away in fear. 6 Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth.
  • Prov 28:1 : 1 The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.
  • Isa 2:20 : 20 In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;
  • Jer 48:8-9 : 8 And the attacker will come against every town, not one will be safe; and the valley will be made waste, and destruction will come to the lowland, as the Lord has said. 9 Put up a pillar for Moab, for she will come to a complete end: and her towns will become a waste, without anyone living in them.
  • Amos 2:14-16 : 14 And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely: 15 And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life. 16 And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.
  • Matt 24:16-18 : 16 Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains: 17 Let not him who is on the house-top go down to take anything out of his house: 18 And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat.
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
  • Ps 68:12 : 12 Kings of armies quickly go in flight: and the women in the houses make a division of their goods.
  • Prov 6:5 : 5 Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
  • Prov 21:1 : 1 The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.
  • Num 35:11-12 : 11 Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight. 12 In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.
  • Job 18:11 : 11 He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.
  • Ps 20:7-8 : 7 Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God. 8 They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.
  • Ps 33:17 : 17 A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 7:3-6
    4 verses
    84%

    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?

    4 If we say, We will go into the town, there is no food in the town, and we will come to our end there; and if we go on waiting here, death will come to us. Come then, let us give ourselves up to the army of Aram: if they let us go on living, then life will be ours; and if they put us to death, then death will be ours.

    5 So in the half light they got up to go to the tents of Aram; but when they came to the outer line of tents, there was no one there.

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 7:8-16
    9 verses
    82%

    8 And when those lepers came to the outer line of tents, they went into one tent, and had food and drink, and took from it silver and gold and clothing, which they put in a secret place; then they came back and went into another tent from which they took more goods, which they put away in a secret place.

    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.

    10 So they came in, and, crying out to the door-keepers of the town, they gave them the news, saying, We came to the tents of the Aramaeans, and there was no one there and no voice of man, only the horses and the asses in their places, and the tents as they were.

    11 Then the door-keepers, crying out, gave the news to those inside the king's house.

    12 Then the king got up in the night and said to his servants, This is my idea of what the Aramaeans have done to us. They have knowledge that we are without food; and so they have gone out of their tents, and are waiting secretly in the open country, saying, When they come out of the town, we will take them living and get into the town.

    13 And one of his servants said in answer, Send men and let them take five of the horses which we still have in the town; if they keep their lives they will be the same as those of Israel who are still living here; if they come to their death they will be the same as all those of Israel who have gone to destruction: let us send and see.

    14 So they took two horsemen; and the king sent them after the army of the Aramaeans, saying, Go and see.

    15 And they went after them as far as Jordan; and all the road was covered with clothing and vessels dropped by the Aramaeans in their flight. So those who were sent went back and gave the news to the king.

    16 Then the people went out and took the goods from the tents of the Aramaeans. So a measure of good meal was to be had for the price of a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, as the Lord had said.

  • 1 Chr 19:14
    74%

    14 So Joab and the people who were with him went forward into the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.

  • 2 Kgs 6:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14 So he sent there horses and carriages and a great army; and they came by night, circling the town.

    15 Now the servant of the man of God, having got up early and gone out, saw an army with horses and carriages of war all round the town. And the servant said to him, O my master, what are we to do?

  • Judg 7:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 Then they made a line round the tents, every man in his place; and all the army, awaking from sleep, came running out, and with loud cries went in flight.

    22 And the three hundred gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zeredah, to the edge of Abel-meholah by Tabbath.

  • Judg 7:8-12
    5 verses
    73%

    8 So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley.

    9 The same night the Lord said to him, Up! go down now against their army, for I have given them into your hands.

    10 But if you have fear of going down, take your servant Purah with you and go down to the tents;

    11 And after hearing what they are saying, you will get strength to go down against the army. So he went down with his servant Purah to the outer line of the tents of the armed men.

    12 Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.

  • 2 Sam 10:13
    73%

    13 Then Joab and the people with him went forward to the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.

  • 1 Kgs 20:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19 So the servants of the chiefs of the divisions of the land went out of the town, with the army coming after them.

    20 And every one of them put his man to death, and the Aramaeans went in flight with Israel after them; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got away safely on a horse with his horsemen.

  • Josh 8:6
    72%

    6 And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;

  • 1 Kgs 20:27
    72%

    27 And the children of Israel got themselves together, and food was made ready and they went against them; the tents of the children of Israel were like two little flocks of goats before them, but all the country was full of the Aramaeans.

  • 1 Kgs 22:36
    72%

    36 And about sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying, Let every man go back to his town and his country, for the king is dead.

  • 2 Kgs 13:7
    72%

    7 For out of all his army, Jehoahaz had only fifty horsemen and ten carriages and ten thousand footmen; the king of Aram had given them up to destruction, crushing them like dust.

  • 1 Kgs 20:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29 Now the two armies kept their positions facing one another for seven days. And on the seventh day the fight was started; and the children of Israel put to the sword a hundred thousand Aramaean footmen in one day.

    30 But the rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room.

  • 2 Kgs 6:8
    71%

    8 At that time the king of Aram was making war against Israel; and he had a meeting with the chiefs of his army and said, I will be waiting in secret in some named place.

  • Josh 11:4
    71%

    4 And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    71%

    15 And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.

  • Isa 30:16
    70%

    16 Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be quick-footed.

  • Josh 8:15
    70%

    15 Then Joshua and all Israel, acting as if they were overcome before them, went in flight by way of the waste land.

  • 2 Chr 24:24
    70%

    24 For though the army of Aram was only a small one, the Lord gave a very great army into their hands, because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers. So they put into effect the punishment of Joash.

  • Jer 46:5
    70%

    5 What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 28:14
    70%

    14 So the armed men gave up the prisoners and the goods they had taken to the heads and the meeting of the people.

  • Zech 14:15
    70%

    15 And the horses and the transport beasts, the camels and the asses and all the beasts in those tents will be attacked by the same disease.

  • Isa 21:15
    70%

    15 For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.

  • Hab 1:8
    70%

    8 And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.

  • 2 Sam 10:18
    70%

    18 And the Aramaeans went in flight before Israel; and David put to the sword the men of seven hundred Aramaean war-carriages and forty thousand footmen, and Shobach, the captain of the army, was wounded, and came to his death there.

  • 1 Chr 5:21
    70%

    21 And they took away their cattle: fifty thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men.

  • Isa 21:7
    70%

    7 And when he sees war-carriages, horsemen by twos, war-carriages with asses, war-carriages with camels, let him give special attention.

  • 2 Chr 18:32
    70%

    32 Now when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.

  • 1 Kgs 22:33
    70%

    33 And when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.

  • Joel 2:5
    70%

    5 Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.

  • 2 Sam 10:15
    70%

    15 And when the Aramaeans saw that Israel had overcome them, they got themselves together.