Luke 15:17-19

and having come to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread in abundance, but here I perish with hunger!

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this is the judgment:

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Summary

If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

If they save us

We shall but die

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If they save us

Luke 15:17
and having come to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread in abundance, but here I perish with hunger!

We shall but die

Hebrews 9:27
And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this is the judgment: