2 Raja-raja 1:11

1:11 The king ¹  sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, ²  “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’” ³ 

2 Raja-raja 3:23

3:23 The Moabites ⁴  said, “It’s blood! The kings are totally destroyed! ⁵  They have struck one another down! Now, Moab, seize the plunder!”

2 Raja-raja 3:26

3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, ⁶  he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack ⁷  the king of Edom, but they failed.

2 Raja-raja 13:7

13:7 Jehoahaz had no army left ⁸  except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers. The king of Syria had destroyed his troops ⁹  and trampled on them like dust. ¹⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 14:7

14:7 He defeated ¹¹  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 Raja-raja 19:35

19:35 That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they ¹²  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. ¹³ 

2 Raja-raja 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. ¹⁴ 

[1:11]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:11]  ² tc The MT reads, “he answered and said to him.” The verb “he answered” (וַיַּעַן, vayya’an) is probably a corruption of “he went up” (וַיַּעַל, vayya’al). See v. 9.

[1:11]  ³ sn In this second panel of the three-paneled narrative, the king and his captain are more arrogant than before. The captain uses a more official sounding introduction (“this is what the king says”) and the king adds “at once” to the command.

[3:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Moabites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:23]  ⁵ tn The translation assumes the verb is חָרַב (kharav, “to be desolate”). The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb form for emphasis. (For another example of the Hophal infinitive with a Niphal finite verb, see Lev 19:20. Cf. also IBHS 582 §35.2.1c.) Some prefer to derive the verb from a proposed homonym meaning “at HALOT 349 s.v. II חרב and BDB 352 s.v. חָרְבָה).

[3:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him.”

[3:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”

[13:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “Indeed he did not leave to Jehoahaz people.” The identity of the subject is uncertain, but the king of Syria, mentioned later in the verse, is a likely candidate.

[13:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “them,” i.e., the remainder of this troops.

[13:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and made them like dust for trampling.”

[14:7]  ¹¹ tn Or “struck down.”

[19:35]  ¹² tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

[19:35]  ¹³ tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies.”

[24:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the entire [group], mighty men, doers of war.”