Discovery Box2 Kings 3:7 
Context3:7 He sent 1 this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you fight with me against Moab?” Jehoshaphat 2 replied, “I will join you in the campaign; my army and horses are at your disposal.” 3
2 Kings 18:14
Context18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty. 4 If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” 5 So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents 6 of silver and thirty talents of gold.
2 Kings 18:27
Context18:27 But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. 7 His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.” 8
1 tn Heb “went and sent.”
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoshaphat) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “I will go up – like me, like you; like my people, like your people; like my horses; like your horses.”
4 tn Or “I have done wrong.”
5 tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”
6 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.
7 tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.
8 tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”
sn The chief adviser alludes to the horrible reality of siege warfare, when the starving people in the besieged city would resort to eating and drinking anything to stay alive.
