² The Lord sent Babylonian,^[a](A) Aramean,^(B) Moabite and Ammonite raiders^(C) against him to destroy^(D) Judah, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by his servants the prophets.^(E)

⁷ The king of Egypt^(A) did not march out from his own country again, because the king of Babylon^(B) had taken all his territory, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.