2 Raja-raja 10:24

10:24 They went inside to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside. He had told them, “If any of the men inside get away, you will pay with your lives!” ¹ 

2 Raja-raja 17:26

17:26 The king of Assyria was told, ²  “The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land, so he has sent lions among them. They are killing the people ³  because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land.”

2 Raja-raja 25:4

25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls, ⁴  and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. ⁵  They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. ⁶  (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. ⁷ 

[10:24]  ¹ tn Heb “The man who escapes from the men whom I am bringing into your hands, [it will be] his life in place of his life.”

[17:26]  ² tn Heb “and they said to the king of Assyria, saying.” The plural subject of the verb is indefinite.

[17:26]  ³ tn Heb “Look they are killing them.”

[25:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “the city was breached.”

[25:4]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense.

[25:4]  ⁶ sn The king’s garden is mentioned again in Neh 3:15 in conjunction with the pool of Siloam and the stairs that go down from the city of David. This would have been in the southern part of the city near the Tyropean Valley which agrees with the reference to the “two walls” which were probably the walls on the eastern and western hills.

[25:4]  ⁷ sn Heb “toward the Arabah.” The Arabah was the rift valley north and south of the Dead Sea. Here the intention was undoubtedly to escape across the Jordan to Moab or Ammon. It appears from Jer 40:14; 41:15 that the Ammonites were known to harbor fugitives from the Babylonians.