2 Kings 7:1

7:1 Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord says, ‘About this time tomorrow a seah ¹  of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.’”

2 Kings 11:19

11:19 He took the officers of the units of hundreds, the Carians, the royal bodyguard, and all the people of land, and together they led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Gate of the Royal Bodyguard, ²  and the king ³  sat down on the royal throne.

2 Kings 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 

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¹ sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.

² tn Heb “the Gate of the Runners of the House of the King.”

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “the city was breached.”

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

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.

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.