20:1 Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria 4 and besieged and attacked it. 5
20:10 Ben Hadad sent another message to him, “May the gods judge me severely 6 if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.” 7
22:10 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, 8 dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. 9 All the prophets were prophesying before them.
1 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
2 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
3 tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.
4 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
5 tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”
7 tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”
8 tn Heb “if the dirt of Samaria suffices for the handfuls of all the people who are at my feet.”
10 tn Heb “were sitting, a man on his throne.”
11 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.