## Then the king arose at night ##

AT: "It was night when the king heard the news about the empty Aramean camp, so he got up from his bed" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicitinfo]])

## have done to us ##

AT: "are planning to do to us"

## we will take them alive, and get into the city -  ##

** AT: "we will capture the Israelites and their city."

## the horses that remain, which are left in the city ##

Many of the horses belonging to the Israelites had died because of the famine. AT: "the horses that are still alive in the city."

## They are like all the rest of the population of Israel who are left ##

The men that would go to the Aramean camp would be in danger of being killed.

## let us send them and see ##

AT: "Let us send a few men and horses to see what is happening at the camp."