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.’” ¹ 

2 Kings 4:39

4:39 Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine. ²  He picked some of its fruit, ³  enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices ⁴  into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful. ⁵ 

2 Kings 8:6

8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. ⁶  The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, ⁷  “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

2 Kings 14:9

14:9 King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal ⁸  of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn. ⁹ 

[9:37]  ¹ tn Heb “so that they will not say, ‘This is Jezebel.’”

[4:39]  ² tn Heb “a vine of the field.”

[4:39]  ³ tn Heb “[some] of the gourds of the field.”

[4:39]  ⁴ tn Heb “he came and cut [them up].”

[4:39]  ⁵ tc The Hebrew text reads, “for they did not know” (יָדָעוּ, yada’u) but some emend the final shureq (וּ, indicating a third plural subject) to holem vav (וֹ, a third masculine singular pronominal suffix on a third singular verb) and read “for he did not know it.” Perhaps it is best to omit the final vav as dittographic (note the vav at the beginning of the next verb form) and read simply, “for he did not know.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.

[8:6]  ³ tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

[8:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

[14:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “the animal of the field.”

[14:9]  ⁵ sn Judah is the thorn in the allegory. Amaziah’s success has deceived him into thinking he is on the same level as the major powers in the area (symbolized by the cedar). In reality he is not capable of withstanding an attack by a real military power such as Israel (symbolized by the wild animal).