2 Kings 8:3

8:3 After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field. ¹ 

2 Kings 9:37

9:37 Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure on the surface of the ground in the plot of land at Jezreel. People will not be able to even recognize her.’” ² 

2 Kings 19:26

19:26 Their residents are powerless, ³ 

they are terrified and ashamed.

They are as short-lived as plants in the field,

or green vegetation. ⁴ 

They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops ⁵ 

when it is scorched by the east wind. ⁶ 

[8:3]  ¹ tn Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”

[9:37]  ² tn Heb “so that they will not say, ‘This is Jezebel.’”

[19:26]  ³ tn Heb “short of hand.”

[19:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “they are plants in the field and green vegetation.” The metaphor emphasizes how short-lived these seemingly powerful cities really were. See Ps 90:5-6; Isa 40:6-8, 24.

[19:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “[they are] grass on the rooftops.” See the preceding note.

[19:26]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew text has “scorched before the standing grain” (perhaps meaning “before it reaches maturity”), but it is preferable to emend קָמָה (qamah), “standing grain,” to קָדִים (qadim), “east wind” (with the support of 1Q Isa^a in Isa 37:27).