2 Kings 6:22

6:22 He replied, “Do not strike them down! You did not capture them with your sword or bow, so what gives you the right to strike them down? ¹  Give them some food and water, so they can eat and drink and then go back to their master.”

2 Kings 11:4

11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned ²  the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians ³  and the royal bodyguard. ⁴  He met with them ⁵  in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement ⁶  with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ⁷  day of the twelfth month, ⁸  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁹  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ¹⁰  from prison.

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¹ tn Heb “Are [they] ones you captured with your sword or your bow (that) you can strike (them) down?”

² tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”

³ sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.

⁴ tn Heb “the runners.”

⁵ tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”

⁶ tn Or “covenant.”

⁷ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

⁸ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁹ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

¹⁰ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.