NET Bible
"So they picked two horsemen and the king sent them out to track the Syrian army. He ordered them,“Go and find out what’s going on.”"
— 2 Kings 7:14, NET Bible
“They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.”
“They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see. ”
“They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, "Go and see."”
“They brought therefore two horses, and the king sent into the camp of the Syrians, saying: Go, and see.”
“So they took two horsemen; and the king sent them after the army of the Aramaeans, saying, Go and see.”
“They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.”
The gatekeepers relayed the news to the royal palace.
The king got up in the night and said to his advisers,“I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking,‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”
One of his advisers replied,“Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city.(Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people– we’re all going to die!) Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.”
So they picked two horsemen and the king sent them out to track the Syrian army. He ordered them,“Go and find out what’s going on.”
So they tracked them as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. The scouts went back and told the king.
Then the people went out and looted the Syrian camp. A seah of finely milled flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, just as in the LORD’s message.
Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him.