2 Kings 3:25

3:25 They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered.¹ They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree.

Only Kir Hareseth was left intact,² but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

2 Kings 17:13

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.”³

2 Kings 23:3

23:3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed⁴ the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow⁵ the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being,⁶ by carrying out the terms⁷ of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant.⁸

2 Kings 25:19

25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five⁹ of the king’s advisers¹⁰ who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens¹¹ for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

¹tn Heb “and [on] every good portion they were throwing each man his stone and they filled it.” The vav + perfect (“and they filled”) here indicates customary action contemporary with the situation described in the preceding main clause (where a customary imperfect is used, “they were throwing”). See the note at 3:4.

²tn Heb “until he had allowed its stones to remain in Kir Hareseth.”

³tn 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.”

⁴tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made, agreed to.”

⁵tn Heb “walk after.”

⁶tn Or “soul.”

⁷tn Heb “words.”

⁸tn Heb “stood in the covenant.”

⁹tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”

¹⁰tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”

¹¹tn Heb “the people of the land.”