2 Kings 9:8

9:8 Ahab’s entire family will die. I ¹  will cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. ² 

2 Kings 4:24

4:24 She saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Lead on. ³  Do not stop unless I say so.” ⁴ 

2 Kings 14:26

14:26 The Lord saw Israel’s intense suffering; ⁵  everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer. ⁶ 

2 Kings 17:4

17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. ⁷  Hoshea had sent messengers to King So ⁸  of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. ⁹ 

¹ tc The LXX has the second person, “you.”

² tn Heb “and I will cut off from Ahab those who urinate against a wall, [including both those who are] restrained and let free [or, ‘abandoned’] in Israel.” On the phrase וְעָצוּר וְעָזוּב (vÿ’atsur vÿ’azur, translated here “weak and incapacitated”) see the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.

³ tn Heb “lead [the donkey on] and go.”

⁴ tn Heb “do not restrain for me the riding unless I say to you.”

⁵ tc Heb “for the Lord saw the very bitter affliction of Israel.” This translation assumes an emendation of מֹרֶה (moreh), which is meaningless here, to ַהמַּר (hammar), the adjective “bitter” functioning attributively with the article prefixed. This emendation is supported by the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate. Another option would be מַר הוּא (mar hu’), “it was bitter.”

⁶ tn Heb “[there was] none but the restrained, and [there was] none but the abandoned, and there was no deliverer for Israel.” On the meaning of the terms עָצוּר (’atsur) and עָזוּב (’azur), see the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.

⁷ tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”

⁸ sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.

⁹ tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”