¹ tn Heb “Should I strike them down? I will strike them down.” In the Hebrew text the first person imperfect form is repeated; the first form has the interrogative he prefixed to it; the second does not. It is likely that the second form should be omitted as dittographic or that the first should be emended to an infinitive absolute.

² tn Heb “my father.” The king addresses the prophet in this way to indicate his respect. See 2 Kgs 2:12.

³ tn Heb “began to cut off Israel.”

⁴ tn Heb “Hazael struck them down in all the territory of Israel, from the Jordan on the east.” In the Hebrew text the phrase “from the Jordan on the east” begins v. 33.

⁵ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁶ tn Heb “sat on his throne.”

⁷ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁸ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁹ tn The MT has simply “with the kings of Israel,” which appears to stand in apposition to the immediately preceding “with his fathers.” But it is likely that the words “and he was buried in Samaria” have been accidentally omitted from the text. See 13:13 and 14:16.

¹⁰ tn Heb “very angry.”

¹¹ tn Heb “turned them away from his face.”

¹² tn Heb “they walked in the practices of Israel which they did.”