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2Ki 7:4 — If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine [is] in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

We will enter		Jer 14:18
let us fall		1Ch 12:19; Jer 37:13,14
if they save us		Est 4:16; Jer 8:14; Jon 3:9; Luk 15:17-19
we shall but die		2Sa 14:14; Hbr 9:27

Correlating Passages

We will enter

Jer 14:18

If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

let us fall

	1Ch 12:19	And there fell [some] of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to [the jeopardy of] our heads.
	Jer 37:13	And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward [was] there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
	Jer 37:14	Then said Jeremiah, [It is] false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

if they save us

	Est 4:16	Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which [is] not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
	Jer 8:14	Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
	Jon 3:9	Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
	Luk 15:17	And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
	Luk 15:18	I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
	Luk 15:19	And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

we shall but die

	2Sa 14:14	For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
	Hbr 9:27	And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

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Scott, Thomas. "2 Kings 7:4," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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