2 Kings 5:15

5:15 He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman ¹  came and stood before him. He said, “For sure ²  I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.”

2 Kings 7:4

7:4 If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, ³  and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect ⁴  to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, ⁵  we’ll live; if they kill us – well, we were going to die anyway.” ⁶ 

2 Kings 7:6

7:6 The Lord had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!”

2 Kings 7:8

7:8 When the men with a skin disease reached the edge of the camp, they entered a tent and had a meal. ⁷  They also took some silver, gold, and clothes and went and hid it all. ⁸  Then they went back and entered another tent. They looted it ⁹  and went and hid what they had taken.

2 Kings 7:10

7:10 So they went and called out to the gatekeepers ¹⁰  of the city. They told them, “We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn’t even hear a man’s voice. ¹¹  But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up.” ¹² 

2 Kings 19:35

19:35 That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they ¹³  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. ¹⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “look.”

³ tn Heb “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city and we will die there.”

⁴ tn Heb “fall.”

⁵ tn Heb “keep us alive.”

⁶ tn Heb “we will die.” The paraphrastic translation attempts to bring out the logical force of their reasoning.

⁵ tn Heb “they ate and drank.”

⁶ tn Heb “and they hid [it].”

⁷ tn Heb “and they took from there.”

⁷ tn The MT has a singular form (“gatekeeper”), but the context suggests a plural. The pronoun that follows (“them”) is plural and a plural noun appears in v. 11. The Syriac Peshitta and the Targum have the plural here.

⁸ tn Heb “and, look, there was no man or voice of a man there.”

⁹ tn Heb “but the horses are tied up and the donkeys are tied up and the tents are as they were.”

⁹ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

¹⁰ tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies.”