2 Raja-raja 6:8

Elisha Defeats an Army

6:8 Now the king of Syria was at war with Israel. He consulted his advisers, who said, “Invade ¹  at such and such ²  a place.”

2 Raja-raja 6:11

6:11 This made the king of Syria upset. ³  So he summoned his advisers ⁴  and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.” ⁵ 

2 Raja-raja 23:28

23:28 The rest of the events of Josiah’s reign and all his accomplishments are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 24:12

24:12 King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered ⁷  to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, ⁸  took Jehoiachin ⁹  prisoner.

[6:8]  ¹ tc The verb form used here is difficult to analyze. On the basis of the form נְחִתִּים (nÿkhitim) in v. 9 from the root נָחַת (nakhat), it is probably best to emend the verb to תִּנְחְתוּ (tinkhÿtu; a Qal imperfect form from the same root). The verb נָחַת in at least two other instances carries the nuance “go down, descend” in a military context. For a defense of this view, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 72.

[6:8]  ² sn The advisers would have mentioned a specific location, but the details are not significant to the narrator’s purpose, so he simply paraphrases here.

[6:11]  ³ tn Heb “and the heart of the king of Syria was stirred up over this thing.”

[6:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “servants.”

[6:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “Will you not tell me who among us [is] for the king of Israel?” The sarcastic rhetorical question expresses the king’s suspicion.

[23:28]  ⁶ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Josiah, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[24:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “came out.”

[24:12]  ⁸ sn That is, the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, 597 b.c.

[24:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.