2 Kings 8:6

8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. 1  The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, 2  “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 19:29

19:29 3 This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: 4  This year you will eat what grows wild, 5  and next year 6  what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce. 7 

1 tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

2 tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

3 tn At this point the word concerning the king of Assyria (vv. 21-28) ends and the Lord again directly addresses Hezekiah and the people (see v. 20).

4 tn Heb “and this is your sign.” In this case the אוֹת (’ot), “sign,” is a future confirmation of God’s intervention designated before the actual intervention takes place. For similar “signs” see Exod 3:12 and Isa 7:14-25.

5 sn This refers to crops that grew up on their own (that is, without cultivation) from the seed planted in past years.

6 tn Heb “and in the second year.”

7 tn The four plural imperatival verb forms in v. 29b are used rhetorically. The Lord commands the people to plant, harvest, etc. to emphasize the certainty of restored peace and prosperity. See IBHS 572 §34.4.c.