2 Kings 3:25

3:25 They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. ¹  They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree.

Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, ²  but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

2 Kings 25:17

25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet ³  high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet ⁴  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

[3:25]  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.

[3:25]  ² tn Heb “until he had allowed its stones to remain in Kir Hareseth.”

[25:17]  ³ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

[25:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”