Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, 2 but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.
21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, 5 in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. 6
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.
2 tn Heb “until he had allowed its stones to remain in Kir Hareseth.”
3 tn Heb “and he saw, and look.”
5 tn Heb “and the house of Baal was filled mouth to mouth.”
7 tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”
8 tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the