2 Kings 10:27

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. 2 Kings 10:27 tn Or “pulled down.”
2. 2 Kings 10:27 tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.
3. 2 Kings 10:27 tn Heb “and they made it into.”
4. 2 Kings 10:27 tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has the hapax legomenon מַחֲרָאוֹת (makharaʾot), “places to defecate” or “dung houses” (note the related noun חֶרֶא (khereʾ)/חֲרִי (khari), “dung,” HALOT 348-49 s.v. *חֲרָאִים). The marginal reading (Qere) glosses this, perhaps euphemistically, מוֹצָאוֹת (motsaʾot), “outhouses.”