New Revised Standard Version
And they struck with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they were unable to find the door.

Contemporary English Version
Then they struck blind everyone in the crowd, and none of them could even find the door.

New American Bible
they struck the men at the entrance of the house, small and great, with such a blinding light that they were utterly unable to find the doorway.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.

And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.

with blindness.

2 Kings 6:18 And the enemies came down to him: but Eliseus prayed to the Lord, saying: Strike, I beseech thee, this people with blindness: and the Lord struck them with blindness, according to the word of Eliseus.

, is supposed to denote dazzlings, deceptions, or confusions of sight from excessive light; being derived by Schultens, who is followed by Parkhurst, from the Arabic sana, to pour forth, diffuse, and nor, light. Dr. Geddes, to the same purpose, thinks it is compounded of the Arabic sana, which signifies a flash, and or, light. The Targums, in both places where it occurs, render it by eruptions, or flashes of light, or as Mercer, in Robertson, explains the Chaldee word, irradiations.

2 Kings 6:18 And the enemies came down to him: but Eliseus prayed to the Lord, saying: Strike, I beseech thee, this people with blindness: and the Lord struck them with blindness, according to the word of Eliseus.

Acts 13:11 And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee: and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And immediately there fell a mist and darkness upon him: and going about, he sought some one to lead him by the hand.

that they.

Ecclesiastes 10:15 The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not how to go to the city.

Isaiah 57:10 Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy ways: yet thou saidst not: I will rest: thou has found life of thy hand, therefore thou hast not asked.

Jeremiah 2:36 How exceeding base art thou become, going the same ways over again! and thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.