2 Kings 14:7

14:7 He defeated¹ 10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.

2 Kings 16:9

16:9 The king of Assyria responded favorably to his request;² he³ attacked Damascus and captured it. He deported the people⁴ to Kir and executed Rezin.

2 Kings 18:13

Sennacherib Invades Judah

18:13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

2 Kings 25:6

25:6 They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah,⁵ where he⁶ passed sentence on him.

¹tn Or “struck down.”

²tn Heb “listened to him.”

³tn Heb “the king of Assyria.”

⁴tn Heb “it.”

⁵sn Riblah was a strategic town on the Orontes River in Syria. It was at a crossing of the major roads between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Pharaoh Necho had earlier received Jehoahaz there and put him in chains (2 Kgs 23:33) prior to taking him captive to Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar had set up his base camp for conducting his campaigns against the Palestinian states there and was now sitting in judgment on prisoners brought to him.

⁶tn The Hebrew text has the plural form of the verb, but the parallel passage in Jer 52:9 has the singular.