2 Kings 7:11 CPDV

⁹  Then they said one to another: 'We are not doing the right thing. For this is a day of good news. If we remain silent and refuse to report it until morning, we will be charged with a crime. Come, let us go and report it in the court of the king.'

¹⁰  And when they had arrived at the gate of the city, they explained to them, saying: 'We went into the camp of the Syrians, and we found no one in that place, except horses and donkeys tied, and the tents still standing.'

¹¹  Therefore, the gatekeepers went and reported it in the palace of the king.

¹²  And he rose up in the night, and he said to his servants: 'I tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are suffering from famine, and therefore they have gone out from the camp, and they lie hidden in the fields, saying: 'When they will have gone out from the city, we will capture them alive, and then we will be able to enter the city.'

¹³  But one of his servants responded: 'Let us take the five horses that remain in the city (for there were no more amid the entire multitude of Israel, since the rest had been consumed), and sending, we will be able to explore.'