Elisha died and was buried. ¹  Moabite raiding parties invaded ²  the land at the beginning of the year. ³ 

biblegateway 2Ki 13:20

Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites would invade the land in the spring of the year.

Then Elisha died and was buried. Now marauding bands of Moabites used to come into the land in the spring of the year.

Elisha died and was buried. Moabite raiding parties used to invade the country in the spring.

biblegateway 2Ki 13:20

Elisha died and was buried. Now Moabite raiders used to enter the country every spring.

So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.

bibleoremus 2Ki 13:20

So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.

Elisha died and was buried. Year after year Moabite raiders used to invade the land.

biblegateway 2Ki 13:20

Then Elisha died, and they buried him. And the raiding bands from Moab invaded the land in the spring of the year.

And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

biblegateway 2Ki 13:20

Elisha died and was buried. ¹  Moabite raiding parties invaded ²  the land at the beginning of the year. ³ 

¹ tn Heb “and they buried him.”

² tn Heb “entered.”

³ tc The MT reading בָּא שָׁנָה (ba’ shanah), “it came, year,” should probably be emended to בְּבָּא הַשָּׁנָה (bÿba’ hashanah), “at the coming [i.e., ‘beginning’] of the year.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 148.