2 Kings 6:3

6:3 One of them said, “Please come along with your servants.” He replied, “All right, I’ll come.”

2 Kings 6:5

6:5 As one of them was felling a log, the ax head ¹  dropped into the water. He shouted, “Oh no, ²  my master! It was borrowed!”

2 Kings 25:16-17

25:16 The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the Lord’s temple – including the two pillars, the big bronze basin called “The Sea,” the twelve bronze bulls under “The Sea,” ³  and the movable stands – was too heavy to be weighed. 25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet ⁴  high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet ⁵  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

[6:5]  ¹ tn Heb “iron.”

[6:5]  ² tn Or “ah.”

[25:16]  ¹ tc The MT lacks “the twelve bronze bulls under ‘the Sea,’” but these words have probably been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton. The scribe’s eye may have jumped from the וְהָ (vÿha-) on וְהַבָּקָר (vÿhabbaqar), “and the bulls,” to the וְהָ on וְהַמְּכֹנוֹת (vÿhammÿkhonot), “and the movable stands,” causing him to leave out the intervening words. See the parallel passage in Jer 52:20.

[25:17]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”