2 Kings 3:26

3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle,¹ he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack² the king of Edom, but they failed.

2 Kings 6:17

6:17 Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes so he can see.” The Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw that³ the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

2 Kings 6:30

6:30 When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.⁴

2 Kings 9:17

9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu’s troops approaching.⁵ He said, “I see troops!”⁶ Jehoram ordered,⁷ “Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, ‘Is everything all right?’”⁸

2 Kings 11:4

11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned⁹ the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians¹⁰ and the royal bodyguard.¹¹ He met with them¹² in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement¹³ with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.

2 Kings 16:10

16:10 When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there.¹⁴ King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design.¹⁵

2 Kings 23:16

23:16 When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought;¹⁶ he burned them on the altar and defiled it. This fulfilled the Lord’s announcement made by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. King Josiah¹⁷ turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.¹⁸

¹tn Heb “and the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him.”

²tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”

³tn Heb “and he saw, and look.”

⁵tn Heb “the people saw, and look, [there was] sackcloth against his skin underneath.”

⁷tn Heb “the quantity [of the men] of Jehu, when he approached.” Elsewhere שִׁפְעַה (shif’ah), “quantity,” is used of a quantity of camels (Isa 60:6) or horses (Ezek 26:10) and of an abundance of water (Job 22:11; 38:34).

⁸tn The term שִׁפְעַת (shifat) appears to be a construct form of the noun, but no genitive follows.

⁹tn Heb “said.”

¹⁰tn Heb “Get a rider and send [him] to meet him and let him ask, ‘Is there peace?’”

⁹tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”

¹⁰sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.

¹¹tn Heb “the runners.”

¹²tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”

¹³tn Or “covenant.”

¹¹tn Heb “in Damascus.”

¹²tn Heb “the likeness of the altar and its pattern for all its work.”

¹³tn Heb “and he sent and took the bones from the tombs.”

¹⁴tn Heb “the king”; this has been specified as “King Josiah” in the translation for clarity (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).

¹⁵tc The MT is much shorter than this. It reads, “according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.” The LXX has a much longer text at this point. It reads: “[which was proclaimed by the man of God] while Jeroboam stood by the altar at a celebration. Then he turned and saw the grave of the man of God [who proclaimed these words].” The extra material attested in the LXX was probably accidentally omitted in the Hebrew tradition when a scribe’s eye jumped from the first occurrence of the phrase “man of God” (which appears right before the extra material) and the second occurrence of the phrase (which appears at the end of the extra material).