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. ¹  They also took some silver, gold, and clothes and went and hid it all. ²  Then they went back and entered another tent. They looted it ³  and went and hid what they had taken.

2 Kings 7:10

7:10 So they went and called out to the gatekeepers ⁴  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. ⁵  But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up.” ⁶ 

[7:8]  ¹ tn Heb “they ate and drank.”

[7:8]  ² tn Heb “and they hid [it].”

[7:8]  ³ tn Heb “and they took from there.”

[7:10]  ⁴ 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.

[7:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “and, look, there was no man or voice of a man there.”

[7:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “but the horses are tied up and the donkeys are tied up and the tents are as they were.”