2 Kings 9:17

9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu’s troops approaching.35 He said, “I see troops!”36 Jehoram ordered,37 “Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, ‘Is everything all right?’ ”38

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35	tn Heb “the quantity [of the men] of Jehu, when he approached.” Elsewhere שִׁפְעַה (shif’ah), “quantity,” is used of a quantity of camels (Isa 60:6) or horses (Ezek 26:10) and of an abundance of water (Job 22:11; 38:34).
36	tn The term שִׁפְעַת (shifat) appears to be a construct form of the noun, but no genitive follows.
37	tn Heb “said.”
38	tn Heb “Get a rider and send [him] to meet him and let him ask, ‘Is there peace?’ ”