2 Kings 19:26-28

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. 2 Kings 19:26 tn Heb “short of hand.”
2. 2 Kings 19:26 tn Heb “they are plants in the field and green vegetation.” The metaphor emphasizes how short-lived these seemingly powerful cities really were. See Ps 90:5-6; Isa 40:6-8, 24.
3. 2 Kings 19:26 tn Heb “[they are] grass on the rooftops.” See the preceding note.
4. 2 Kings 19:26 tc The Hebrew text has “scorched before the standing grain” (perhaps meaning “before it reaches maturity”), but it is preferable to emend קָמָה (qamah), “standing grain,” to קָדִים (qadim), “east wind” (with the support of 1Q Isa^a in Isa 37:27).
5. 2 Kings 19:27 tc Heb “your going out and your coming in.” The MT also has here, “and how you have raged against me.” However, this line is probably dittographic (note the beginning of the next line).
6. 2 Kings 19:28 tc Heb “and your complacency comes up into my ears.” The parallelism is improved if שַׁאֲנַנְךָ (shaʾanan^ekha), “your complacency,” is emended to שַׁאֲוַנְךְ (shaʾavan^ekha), “your uproar.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 237-38.
7. 2 Kings 19:28 sn The word picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.