2 Kings 6:18
Context6:18 As they approached him, 1 Elisha prayed to the Lord, “Strike these people 2 with blindness.” 3 The Lord 4 struck them with blindness as Elisha requested. 5
2 Kings 18:16
Context18:16 At that time King Hezekiah of Judah stripped the metal overlays from the doors of the Lord’s temple and from the posts which he had plated 6 and gave them to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 23:26
Context23:26 Yet the Lord’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done. 7
1 tn Heb “and they came down to him.”
2 tn Or “this nation,” perhaps emphasizing the strength of the Syrian army.
3 tn On the basis of the Akkadian etymology of the word, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 74) translate “blinding light.” HALOT 761 s.v. סַנְוֵרִים suggests the glosses “dazzling, deception.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
5 tn Heb “according to the word of Elisha.”
6 tn Heb “At that time Hezekiah stripped the doors of the
7 tn Heb “Yet the