2 Kings 1:17

1:17 He died just as the Lord had prophesied through Elijah.¹ In the second year of the reign of King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah, Ahaziah’s brother Jehoram replaced him as king of Israel, because he had no son.²

2 Kings 3:7

3:7 He sent³ this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you fight with me against Moab?” Jehoshaphat⁴ replied, “I will join you in the campaign; my army and horses are at your disposal.”⁵

2 Kings 3:13

3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here?⁶ Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”

2 Kings 7:17

7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man⁷ at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate.⁸ This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him.⁹

2 Kings 8:6

8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details.¹⁰ The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him,¹¹ “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

2 Kings 9:21

9:21 Jehoram ordered, “Hitch up my chariot.”¹² When his chariot had been hitched up,¹³ King Jehoram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah went out in their respective chariots¹⁴ to meet Jehu. They met up with him¹⁵ in the plot of land that had once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel.

2 Kings 10:13

10:13 Jehu encountered¹⁶ the relatives¹⁷ of King Ahaziah of Judah. He asked, “Who are you?” They replied, “We are Ahaziah’s relatives. We have come down to see how¹⁸ the king’s sons and the queen mother’s sons are doing.”

2 Kings 11:14

11:14 Then she saw¹⁹ the king standing by the pillar, according to custom. The officers stood beside the king with their trumpets and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!”²⁰

2 Kings 11:19

11:19 He took the officers of the units of hundreds, the Carians, the royal bodyguard, and all the people of land, and together they led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Gate of the Royal Bodyguard,²¹ and the king²² sat down on the royal throne.

2 Kings 12:18

12:18 King Jehoash of Judah collected all the sacred items that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, as well as his own sacred items and all the gold that could be found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He sent it all²³ to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew²⁴ from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 14:9

14:9 King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal²⁵ of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn.²⁶

2 Kings 14:13

14:13 King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, in Beth Shemesh. He²⁷ attacked²⁸ Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet.²⁹

2 Kings 15:20

15:20 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.³⁰ Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.

2 Kings 18:17

18:17 The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser³¹ from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem,³² along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went³³ and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.³⁴

2 Kings 23:4

23:4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests,³⁵ and the guards³⁶ to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of³⁷ Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky.³⁸ The king³⁹ burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces⁴⁰ of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.⁴¹

¹tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke through Elijah.”

²tn Heb “Jehoram replaced him as king…because he had no son.” Some ancient textual witnesses add “his brother,” which was likely added on the basis of the statement later in the verse that Ahaziah had no son.

³tn Heb “went and sent.”

⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoshaphat) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “I will go up – like me, like you; like my people, like your people; like my horses; like your horses.”

⁶tn Or “What do we have in common?” The text reads literally, “What to me and to you?”

⁷tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”

⁸tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”

⁹tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

¹¹tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

¹²tn The words “my chariot” are added for clarification.

¹³tn Heb “and he hitched up his chariot.”

¹⁴tn Heb “each in his chariot and they went out.”

¹⁵tn Heb “they found him.”

¹⁶tn Heb “found.”

¹⁷tn Or “brothers.”

¹⁸tn Heb “for the peace of.”

¹⁹tn Heb “and she saw, and look.”

²⁰tn Or “conspiracy, conspiracy.”

²¹tn Heb “the Gate of the Runners of the House of the King.”

²²tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²³tn The object (“it all”) is supplied in the translation for clarification.

²⁴tn Heb “went up.”

²⁵tn Heb “the animal of the field.”

²⁶sn Judah is the thorn in the allegory. Amaziah’s success has deceived him into thinking he is on the same level as the major powers in the area (symbolized by the cedar). In reality he is not capable of withstanding an attack by a real military power such as Israel (symbolized by the wild animal).

²⁷tc The MT has the plural form of the verb, but the final vav (ו) is virtually dittographic. The word that immediately follows in the Hebrew text begins with a yod (י). The form should be emended to the singular, which is consistent in number with the verb (“he broke down”) that follows.

²⁸tn Heb “came to.”

²⁹tn Heb “four hundred cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

³⁰tn 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.”

³¹sn For a discussion of these titles see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 229-30.

³²map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

³³tn Heb “and they went up and came.”

³⁴tn Heb “the field of the washer.”

³⁵tn Heb “the priests of the second [rank],” that is, those ranked just beneath Hilkiah.

³⁶tn Or “doorkeepers.”

³⁷tn Heb “for.”

³⁸tn Heb “all the host of heaven” (also in v. 5).

³⁹tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴⁰tn Or “fields.” For a defense of the translation “terraces,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 285.

⁴¹map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.