2 Kings 7:4

If we say we will enter into the city ,.... Contrary to the law which forbid them:

then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there ; not being able to obtain food to preserve life:

and if we sit here, we die also ; having nothing to eat to support nature:

now therefore let us come, and fall unto the host of the Syrians ; put ourselves into their hands, and lie at their mercy:

if they save us alive, we shall live ; if they do not put us to death, but give us bread to eat, our lives will be preserved:

and if they kill us, we shall but die ; which we must inevitably do, whether we stay here, or go into the city.