Discovery Box2 Kings 19:28 
Context19:28 Because you rage against me,
and the uproar you create has reached my ears; 1
I will put my hook in your nose, 2
and my bridle between your lips,
and I will lead you back the way
you came.”
2 Kings 21:12
Context21:12 So this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I am about to bring disaster on Jerusalem and Judah. The news will reverberate in the ears of those who hear about it. 3
1 tc Heb “and your complacency comes up into my ears.” The parallelism is improved if שַׁאֲנַנְךְ (sha’anankh), “your complacency,” is emended to שַׁאֲוַנְךְ (sha’avankh), “your uproar.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 237-38.
2 sn The word picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.
3 tn Heb “so that everyone who hears it, his two ears will quiver.”
