Discovery Box2 Kings 9:7-9 
Context9:7 You will destroy the family of your master Ahab. 1 I will get revenge against Jezebel for the shed blood of my servants the prophets and for the shed blood of all the Lord’s servants. 2 9:8 Ahab’s entire family will die. I 3 will cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. 4 9:9 I will make Ahab’s dynasty 5 like those of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah.
1 tn Or “strike down the house of Ahab your master.”
2 tn Heb “I will avenge the shed blood of my servants the prophets and the shed blood of all the servants of the
3 tc The LXX has the second person, “you.”
4 tn Heb “and I will cut off from Ahab those who urinate against a wall, [including both those who are] restrained and let free [or, ‘abandoned’] in Israel.” On the phrase וְעָצוּר וְעָזוּב (vÿ’atsur vÿ’azur, translated here “weak and incapacitated”) see the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.
5 tn Heb “house.”
