2 Kings 6:25

6:25 Samaria’s food supply ran out. ¹  They laid siege to it so long that ²  a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver ³  and a quarter of a kab ⁴  of dove’s droppings ⁵  for five shekels of silver. ⁶ 

2 Kings 18:28

18:28 The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, ⁷  “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ⁸  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ⁹  and how I have carried out your will.” ¹⁰  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 25:9

25:9 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house. ¹² 

2 Kings 25:26

25:26 Then all the people, from the youngest to the oldest, as well as the army officers, left for ¹³  Egypt, because they were afraid of what the Babylonians might do.

¹ tn Heb “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”

² tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”

³ tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

⁴ sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately one quart.

⁵ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) reads, “dove dung” (חֲרֵייוֹנִים, khareyonim), while the marginal reading (Qere) has “discharge” (דִּבְיוֹנִים, divyonim). Based on evidence from Akkadian, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 79) suggest that “dove’s dung” was a popular name for the inedible husks of seeds.

⁶ tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

⁷ tn The Hebrew text also has, “and he spoke and said.”

¹³ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

¹⁴ tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “and every large house he burned down with fire.”

²⁵ tn Heb “arose and went to.”