2 Raja-raja 19:29

19:29 ¹ This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: ²  This year you will eat what grows wild, ³  and next year ⁴  what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce. ⁵ 

2 Raja-raja 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ⁶  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ⁷  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ⁸  and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law ⁹  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

[19:29]  ¹ tn At this point the word concerning the king of Assyria (vv. 21-28) ends and the Lord again directly addresses Hezekiah and the people (see v. 20).

[19:29]  ² tn Heb “and this is your sign.” In this case the אוֹת (’ot), “sign,” is a future confirmation of God’s intervention designated before the actual intervention takes place. For similar “signs” see Exod 3:12 and Isa 7:14-25.

[19:29]  ³ sn This refers to crops that grew up on their own (that is, without cultivation) from the seed planted in past years.

[19:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “and in the second year.”

[19:29]  ⁵ tn The four plural imperatival verb forms in v. 29b are used rhetorically. The Lord commands the people to plant, harvest, etc. to emphasize the certainty of restored peace and prosperity. See IBHS 572 §34.4.c.

[23:24]  ⁶ tn Here בִּעֵר (bi’er) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.

[23:24]  ⁷ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ⁸ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”