3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here? 1 Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”
17:13 The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” 5
1 tn Or “What do we have in common?” The text reads literally, “What to me and to you?”
2 tn Heb “Am I God, killing and restoring life, that this one sends to me to cure a man from his skin disease?” In the Hebrew text this is one lengthy rhetorical question, which has been divided up in the translation for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Heb “Indeed, know and see that he is seeking an occasion with respect to me.”
4 tn Heb “The man who escapes from the men whom I am bringing into your hands, [it will be] his life in place of his life.”
5 tn Heb “obey my commandments and rules according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.”
6 tn Or “I have done wrong.”
7 tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”
8 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.
9 tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.”
10 tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the
11 tn Heb “and lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.”
12 tc Heb “listened to.” Some Hebrew
13 tn Heb “there was nothing which Hezekiah did not show them in his house and in all his kingdom.”
14 tn Or “inquire of.”
15 tn Heb “concerning.”
16 tn Heb “for great is the anger of the
17 tn Heb “by doing all that is written concerning us.” Perhaps עָלֵינוּ (’alenu), “concerning us,” should be altered to עָלָיו (’alav), “upon it,” in which case one could translate, “by doing all that is written in it.”
18 tn Heb “the city was breached.”
19 tn The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense.
20 sn The king’s garden is mentioned again in Neh 3:15 in conjunction with the pool of Siloam and the stairs that go down from the city of David. This would have been in the southern part of the city near the Tyropean Valley which agrees with the reference to the “two walls” which were probably the walls on the eastern and western hills.
21 sn Heb “toward the Arabah.” The Arabah was the rift valley north and south of the Dead Sea. Here the intention was undoubtedly to escape across the Jordan to Moab or Ammon. It appears from Jer 40:14; 41:15 that the Ammonites were known to harbor fugitives from the Babylonians.