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 ¹  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. ² 

Yesaya 34:3

34:3 Their slain will be left unburied, ³ 

their corpses will stink; ⁴ 

the hills will soak up their blood. ⁵ 

Yeremia 47:3

47:3 Fathers will hear the hoofbeats of the enemies’ horses,

the clatter of their chariots and the rumbling of their wheels.

They will not turn back to save their children

because they will be paralyzed with fear. ⁶ 

[19:35]  ¹ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

[19:35]  ² tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies.”

[34:3]  ³ tn Heb “will be cast aside”; NASB, NIV “thrown out.”

[34:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “[as for] their corpses, their stench will arise.”

[34:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “hills will dissolve from their blood.”

[47:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “From the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, from the rattling of his chariots at the rumbling of their wheels, fathers will not turn to their children from sinking of hands.” According to BDB 952 s.v. רִפָּיוֹן the “sinking of the hands” is figurative of helplessness caused by terror. A very similar figure is seen with a related expression in Isa 35:3-4. The sentence has been restructured to put the subject up front and to suggest through shorter sentences more in keeping with contemporary English style the same causal connections. The figures have been interpreted for the sake of clarity for the average reader.