2 Kings 4:9

4:9 She said to her husband, “Look, I’m sure ¹  that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet. ² 

2 Kings 25:30

25:30 He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died. ³ 

[4:9]  ¹ tn Heb “I know.”

[4:9]  ² tn Heb “holy man of God.”

[25:30]  ³ tc The words “until the day he died” do not appear in the MT, but they are included in the parallel passage in Jer 52:34. Probably they have been accidentally omitted by homoioteleuton. A scribe’s eye jumped from the final vav (ו) on בְּיוֹמוֹ (bÿyomo), “in his day,” to the final vav (ו) on מוֹתוֹ (moto), “his death,” leaving out the intervening words.