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 7:13

7:13 One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!) ³  Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.” ⁴ 

2 Kings 23:5

23:5 He eliminated ⁵  the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to offer sacrifices ⁶  on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the area right around Jerusalem. (They offered sacrifices ⁷  to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the constellations, and all the stars in the sky.)

[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.”

[7:13]  ³ tn Heb “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.” The MT is dittographic here; the words “that remain in it. Look they are like all the people of Israel” have been accidentally repeated. The original text read, “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.”

[7:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “and let us send so we might see.”

[23:5]  ⁵ tn Perhaps, “destroyed.”

[23:5]  ⁶ tn Or “burn incense.”

[23:5]  ⁷ tn Or “burned incense.”