28:6 In one day King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. 1 28:7 Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed the king’s son Maaseiah, Azrikam, the supervisor of the palace, and Elkanah, the king’s second-in-command.
28:8 The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it 2 back to Samaria. 3
1 tnHeb “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 25).
2 tnHeb “the loot.” The pronoun (“it”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.
3 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.