2 Kings 8:28

8:28 He joined Ahab’s son Joram in a battle against King Hazael of Syria at Ramoth Gilead in which the Syrians defeated Joram.

2 Kings 16:5

16:5 At that time King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel attacked Jerusalem. ¹  They besieged Ahaz, ²  but were unable to conquer him. ³ 

2 Kings 18:20

18:20 Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. ⁴  In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me?

2 Kings 24:16

24:16 The king of Babylon deported to Babylon all the soldiers (there were 7,000), as well as 1,000 craftsmen and metal workers. This included all the best warriors. ⁵ 

2 Kings 3:7

3:7 He sent ⁶  this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you fight with me against Moab?” Jehoshaphat ⁷  replied, “I will join you in the campaign; my army and horses are at your disposal.” ⁸ 

2 Kings 3:26

3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, ⁹  he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack ¹⁰  the king of Edom, but they failed.

2 Kings 13:25

13:25 Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash took back from ¹¹  Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities.

2 Kings 14:7

14:7 He defeated ¹²  10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.

2 Kings 25:4

25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls, ¹³  and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. ¹⁴  They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. ¹⁵  (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 25:19

25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five ¹⁷  of the king’s advisers ¹⁸  who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens ¹⁹  for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

[16:5]  ¹ tn Heb “went up to Jerusalem for battle.”

[16:5]  ² tn That is, Jerusalem, Ahaz’s capital city.

[16:5]  ³ tn Heb “they were unable to fight.” The object must be supplied from the preceding sentence. Elsewhere when the Niphal infinitive of לָחָם (lakham) follows the verb יָכֹל (yakhol), the infinitive appears to have the force of “prevail against.” See Num 22:11; 1 Sam 17:9; and the parallel passage in Isa 7:1.

[18:20]  ¹ tn Heb “you say only a word of lips, counsel and might for battle.” Sennacherib’s message appears to be in broken Hebrew at this point. The phrase “word of lips” refers to mere or empty talk in Prov 14:23.

[24:16]  ¹ tn Heb “the entire [group], mighty men, doers of war.”

[3:7]  ¹ tn Heb “went and sent.”

[3:7]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoshaphat) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:7]  ³ tn Heb “I will go up – like me, like you; like my people, like your people; like my horses; like your horses.”

[3:26]  ¹ tn Heb “and the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him.”

[3:26]  ² tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”

[13:25]  ¹ tn Heb “from the hand of.”

[14:7]  ¹ tn Or “struck down.”

[25:4]  ¹ tn Heb “the city was breached.”

[25:4]  ² 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]  ³ 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]  ⁴ 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.

[25:19]  ¹ tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”

[25:19]  ² tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”

[25:19]  ³ tn Heb “the people of the land.”