Discovery Box2 Kings 3:25 
Context3:25 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 7:9
Context7:9 Then they said to one another, “It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone. 3 If we wait until dawn, 4 we’ll be punished. 5 So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”
2 Kings 8:6
Context8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. 6 The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, 7 “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 15:5
Context15:5 The Lord afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease 8 until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, 9 while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.
2 Kings 18:32
Context18:32 until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, “The Lord will rescue us.”
1 tn 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.
2 tn Heb “until he had allowed its stones to remain in Kir Hareseth.”
3 tn Heb “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”
4 tn Heb “the light of the morning.”
5 tn Heb “punishment will find us.”
6 tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”
7 tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”
8 tn Traditionally, “he was a leper.” But see the note at 5:1.
9 tn The precise meaning of בֵית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhofÿshit), “house of […?],” is uncertain. For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.
