Discovery Box2 Kings 7:4 
Context7:4 If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, 1 and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect 2 to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, 3 we’ll live; if they kill us – well, we were going to die anyway.” 4
2 Kings 15:20
Context15:20 Menahem got this silver by taxing all the wealthy men in Israel; he took fifty shekels of silver from each one of them and paid it to the king of Assyria. 5 Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.
1 tn Heb “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city and we will die there.”
2 tn Heb “fall.”
3 tn Heb “keep us alive.”
4 tn Heb “we will die.” The paraphrastic translation attempts to bring out the logical force of their reasoning.
5 tn Heb “and Menahem brought out the silver over Israel, over the prominent men of means, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver for each man.”
