24:23 At the beginning 5 of the year the Syrian army attacked 6 Joash 7 and invaded Judah and Jerusalem. They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus.
1 tn Or “army.”
2 tc The MT reads פְגָרִים (fÿgarim, “corpses”), but this seems odd among a list of plunder. A few medieval Hebrew
3 tn Heb “and they snatched away for themselves so that there was no carrying away.”
4 tn Heb “and they were three days looting the plunder for it was great.”
5 tn Heb “turning.”
6 tn Heb “went up against.”
7 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.