18:9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched 1 up against Samaria 2 and besieged it.
10:14 The roar of battle will rise against your people;
all your fortresses will be devastated,
just as Shalman devastated 3 Beth Arbel on the day of battle,
when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.
1 tn Heb “went” (also in v. 13).
2 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
3 tn Heb “as the devastation of Shalman.” The genitive noun שַׁלְמַן (shalman, “Shalman”) functions as a subjective genitive: “as Shalman devastated [Beth Arbel].”