Discovery Box2 Kings 6:22 
Context6:22 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
Context11:4 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
Context25:27 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.
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
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.
