2 Kings 3:10
3:10 The king of Israel said, “Oh no! 1 Certainly the Lord has summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to the king of Moab!”
2 Kings 18:29
18:29 This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah mislead you, for he is not able to rescue you from my hand! 2
2 Kings 21:14
21:14 I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people 3 and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies, 4
2 Kings 22:5
22:5 Have them hand it over to the construction foremen 5 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it, 6
1 tn Or “ah.”
2 tc The MT has “his hand,” but this is due to graphic confusion of vav (ו) and yod (י). The translation reads “my hand,” along with many medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, Targum, and Vulgate.
3 tn Heb “the remnant of my inheritance.” In this context the Lord’s remnant is the tribe of Judah, which had been preserved when the Assyrians conquered and deported the northern tribes. See 17:18 and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 269.
4 tn Heb “they will become plunder and spoils of war for all their enemies.”
5 tn Heb “doers of the work.”
6 tn Heb “and let them give it to the doers of the work who are in the house of the Lord to repair the damages to the house.”