Discovery Box2 Kings 3:23 
Context3:23 The Moabites 1 said, “It’s blood! The kings are totally destroyed! 2 They have struck one another down! Now, Moab, seize the plunder!”
2 Kings 19:12
Context19:12 Were the nations whom my ancestors destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods? 3
2 Kings 21:9
Context21:9 But they did not obey, 4 and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.
1 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Moabites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn The translation assumes the verb is חָרַב (kharav, “to be desolate”). The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb form for emphasis. (For another example of the Hophal infinitive with a Niphal finite verb, see Lev 19:20. Cf. also IBHS 582 §35.2.1c.) Some prefer to derive the verb from a proposed homonym meaning “at HALOT 349 s.v. II חרב and BDB 352 s.v. חָרְבָה).
3 tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them – Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?”
4 tn Heb “listen.”
