2 Kings 3:27

3:27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel, ¹  so they broke off the attack ²  and returned to their homeland.

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. ³ 

2 Kings 14:13

14:13 King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, in Beth Shemesh. He ⁴  attacked ⁵  Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet. ⁶ 

2 Kings 18:26-27

18:26 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ⁷  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ⁸  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” 18:27 But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. ⁹  His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.” ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 25:4

25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls, ¹¹  and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. ¹²  They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. ¹³  (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. ¹⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “there was great anger against Israel.”

² tn Heb “they departed from him.”

³ tn Heb “the people saw, and look, [there was] sackcloth against his skin underneath.”

⁵ tc The MT has the plural form of the verb, but the final vav (ו) is virtually dittographic. The word that immediately follows in the Hebrew text begins with a yod (י). The form should be emended to the singular, which is consistent in number with the verb (“he broke down”) that follows.

⁶ tn Heb “came to.”

⁷ tn Heb “four hundred cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

⁷ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.

⁸ tn Or “Hebrew.”

⁹ tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.

¹⁰ tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”

¹¹ tn Heb “the city was breached.”

¹² tn The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense.

¹³ sn The king’s garden is mentioned again in Neh 3:15 in conjunction with the pool of Siloam and the stairs that go down from the city of David. This would have been in the southern part of the city near the Tyropean Valley which agrees with the reference to the “two walls” which were probably the walls on the eastern and western hills.

¹⁴ sn Heb “toward the Arabah.” The Arabah was the rift valley north and south of the Dead Sea. Here the intention was undoubtedly to escape across the Jordan to Moab or Ammon. It appears from Jer 40:14; 41:15 that the Ammonites were known to harbor fugitives from the Babylonians.