2 Kings 7:3
Context7:3 Now four men with a skin disease 1 were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, “Why are we just sitting here waiting to die? 2
2 Kings 25:16
Context25:16 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.


[7:3] 1 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 5:1.
[7:3] 2 tn Heb “until we die.”
[25:16] 3 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.