2 Raja-raja 3:25

3:25 They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. ¹  They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree.

Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, ²  but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

2 Raja-raja 4:27

4:27 But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said, “Leave her alone, for she is very upset. ³  The Lord has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn’t tell me about it.”

2 Raja-raja 7:17

7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man ⁴  at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. ⁵  This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. ⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 17:6

17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel ⁷  to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Raja-raja 18:12

18:12 This happened because they did not obey ⁸  the Lord their God and broke his agreement with them. ⁹  They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded. ¹⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 22:20

22:20 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. ¹¹  You will not have to witness ¹²  all the disaster I will bring on this place.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.

[3:25]  ¹ tn Heb “and [on] every good portion they were throwing each man his stone and they filled it.” The vav + perfect (“and they filled”) here indicates customary action contemporary with the situation described in the preceding main clause (where a customary imperfect is used, “they were throwing”). See the note at 3:4.

[3:25]  ² tn Heb “until he had allowed its stones to remain in Kir Hareseth.”

[4:27]  ³ tn Heb “her soul [i.e., ‘disposition’] is bitter.”

[7:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”

[7:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”

[7:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”

[17:6]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

[18:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”

[18:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “his covenant.”

[18:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded, and they did not listen and they did not act.”

[22:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Therefore, look, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”

[22:20]  ¹² tn Heb “your eyes will not see.”