2 Kings 18:27

18:27 But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. ¹  His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.” ² 

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ³  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ⁴  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ⁵  and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law ⁶  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

[18:27]  ¹ tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.

[18:27]  ² tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”

[23:24]  ³ tn Here בִּעֵר (bi’er) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.

[23:24]  ⁴ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ⁵ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”