2 Kings 19:16

19:16 Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to the message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God! ¹ 

2 Kings 19:28

19:28 Because you rage against me,

and the uproar you create has reached my ears; ² 

I will put my hook in your nose, ³ 

and my bridle between your lips,

and I will lead you back the way

you came.”

2 Kings 21:12

21:12 So this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I am about to bring disaster on Jerusalem and Judah. The news will reverberate in the ears of those who hear about it. ⁴ 

2 Kings 18:26

18:26 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ⁵  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ⁶  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

2 Kings 23:2

23:2 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud ⁷  all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.

¹ tn Heb “Hear the words of Sennacherib which he sent to taunt the living God.”

² 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.

³ sn The word picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.

³ tn Heb “so that everyone who hears it, his two ears will quiver.”

⁴ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.

⁵ tn Or “Hebrew.”

⁵ tn Heb “read in their ears.”