2 Raja-raja 4:34

4:34 He got up on the bed and spread his body out over ¹  the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s ²  mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin ³  grew warm.

2 Raja-raja 19:28

19:28 Because you rage against me,

and the uproar you create has reached my ears; ⁴ 

I will put my hook in your nose, ⁵ 

and my bridle between your lips,

and I will lead you back the way

you came.”

2 Raja-raja 18:20

18:20 Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. ⁶  In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me?

[4:34]  ¹ tn Heb “he went up and lay down over.”

[4:34]  ² tn Heb “his” (also in the next two clauses).

[4:34]  ³ tn Or perhaps, “body”; Heb “flesh.”

[19:28]  ⁴ tc Heb “and your complacency comes up into my ears.” The parallelism is improved if שַׁאֲנַנְךְ (sha’anankh), “your complacency,” is emended to שַׁאֲוַנְךְ (sha’avankh), “your uproar.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 237-38.

[19:28]  ⁵ sn The word picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.

[18:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “you say only a word of lips, counsel and might for battle.” Sennacherib’s message appears to be in broken Hebrew at this point. The phrase “word of lips” refers to mere or empty talk in Prov 14:23.