2 Kings 7:11
in 2 Kings 7The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported to the king’s household.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s household within.
KJV
And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house within.
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This verse in 2 Kings 7
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
called out to the gatekeepers of the city
on 2 Kings 7:10-12
Word passes in quick steps: the lepers call to the gatekeepers, the gatekeepers shout it, and the king's household hears it within. The king's first thought is a trap, that the Arameans “have left the camp to hide in the field” to take the city.
This site's exposition
The gatekeepers shouted the news
Albert Barnes explains the gatekeeper of verse 10 as a guard, the body of men keeping watch at one of the gates. Those men carried the cry inward to the palace. Matthew Henry notes that the king himself had heard none of the noise that drove the Arameans away.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture
And he called the porters,.... The porter of the city called to the porters of the king's palace: and they told it to the king's house within; to some of his domestic servants within the palace, and they reported it to the king.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
As they were. As they were full at the beginning; they did not take out what was in them.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
We are starving. And long to go out to the loot and to the food. 4 Their enemy figured that the Bnei Yisroel are desperately starving and will therefore leave the city without first investigating whether the enemy is waiting in ambush.—Metzudas Dovid
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּקְרָ֖א | vaiyikra' | and he called out | H7121 → | 733 times |
| הַשֹּֽׁעֲרִ֑ים | hashoarim | the gatekeepers | H7778 → | |
| וַיַּגִּ֕ידוּ | vaiyagidu | and they told | H5046 → | 370 times |
| בֵּ֥ית | beit | [the] household of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ | hamelekh | the king | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| פְּנִֽימָה׃ | penimah | within | H6441 → |
וַיִּקְרָ֖אand he called out
vaiyikra'H7121 →733 times
הַשֹּֽׁעֲרִ֑יםthe gatekeepers
hashoarimH7778 →
וַיַּגִּ֕ידוּand they told
vaiyagiduH5046 →370 times
בֵּ֥ית[the] household of
beitH1004 →2046 times
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king
hamelekhH4428 →2525 times
פְּנִֽימָה׃within
penimahH6441 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Kings
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.