2 Kings 2:17
2:17 But they were so insistent, he became embarrassed. So he said, “Send them out.” They sent the fifty men out and they looked for three days, but could not find Elijah. 1
2 Kings 3:10
3:10 The king of Israel said, “Oh no! 2 Certainly the Lord has summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to the king of Moab!”
2 Kings 9:32
9:32 He looked up at the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three 3 eunuchs looked down at him.
2 Kings 18:10
18:10 After three years he captured it (in the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign); in the ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign over Israel Samaria was captured.
2 Kings 24:1
24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, 4 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. 5 Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. 6
1 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Or “ah.”
3 tn Heb “two, three.” The narrator may be intentionally vague or uncertain here, or the two numbers may represent alternate traditions.
4 tn Heb “In his days.”
5 tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.
6 tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”