OLD TESTAMENT

2 Kings 7:3

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Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

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Verse 3. Lepers. They were excluded from society, though the laws of religion were ill observed in Israel. The Rabbins say, these four were Giezi and his three sons. Calmet.—But this is without foundation, ( Bible.) as Giezi was not yet a leper. Calmet. 8:5.—Salien places that judgment two years later. Bible.

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