Discovery Box2 Kings 3:18 
Context3:18 This is an easy task for the Lord; 1 he will also hand Moab over to you.
2 Kings 3:24
Context3:24 When they approached the Israelite camp, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who then ran from them. The Israelites 2 thoroughly defeated 3 Moab.
1 tn Heb “and this is easy in the eyes of the
2 tn Heb “they.”
3 tc The consonantal text (Kethib) suggests, “and they went, striking down,” but the marginal reading (Qere) is “they struck down, striking down.” For a discussion of the textual problem, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 46.
