20:10 Ben Hadad sent another message to him, “May the gods judge me severely 4 if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.” 5
1 tn Heb “saying.”
2 tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”
3 tn Heb “I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”
4 tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”
5 tn Heb “if the dirt of Samaria suffices for the handfuls of all the people who are at my feet.”