2 Kings 21:14

21:14 I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people ¹  and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies, ² 

2 Kings 17:39

17:39 Instead you must worship the Lord your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.”

2 Kings 6:18

6:18 As they approached him, ³  Elisha prayed to the Lord, “Strike these people ⁴  with blindness.” ⁵  The Lord ⁶  struck them with blindness as Elisha requested. ⁷ 

2 Kings 14:19

14:19 Conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, ⁸  so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him ⁹  and they killed him there.

2 Kings 3:26-27

3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, ¹⁰  he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack ¹¹  the king of Edom, but they failed. 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, ¹²  so they broke off the attack ¹³  and returned to their homeland.

2 Kings 25:4

25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls, ¹⁴  and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. ¹⁵  They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. ¹⁶  (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. ¹⁷ 

[21:14]  ¹ tn Heb “the remnant of my inheritance.” In this context the Lord’s remnant is the tribe of Judah, which had been preserved when the Assyrians conquered and deported the northern tribes. See 17:18 and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 269.

[21:14]  ² tn Heb “they will become plunder and spoils of war for all their enemies.”

[6:18]  ³ tn Heb “and they came down to him.”

[6:18]  ⁴ tn Or “this nation,” perhaps emphasizing the strength of the Syrian army.

[6:18]  ⁵ tn On the basis of the Akkadian etymology of the word, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 74) translate “blinding light.” HALOT 761 s.v. סַנְוֵרִים suggests the glosses “dazzling, deception.”

[6:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “according to the word of Elisha.”

[14:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they conspired against him [with] a conspiracy in Jerusalem.”

[14:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they sent after him to Lachish.”

[3:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him.”

[3:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”

[3:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “there was great anger against Israel.”

[3:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they departed from him.”

[25:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the city was breached.”

[25:4]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense.

[25:4]  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.

[25:4]  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.