2 Kings 3:10

3:10 The king of Israel said, “Oh no! ¹  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 ²  eunuchs looked down at him.

2 Kings 13:18

13:18 Then Elisha ³  said, “Take the arrows,” and he did so. ⁴  He told the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” He struck the ground three times and stopped.

2 Kings 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ⁵  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ⁶  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ⁷ 

2 Kings 24:8

Jehoiachin’s Reign over Judah

24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. ⁸  His mother ⁹  was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25:18

25:18 The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah, the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.

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¹ tn Or “ah.”

² tn Heb “two, three.” The narrator may be intentionally vague or uncertain here, or the two numbers may represent alternate traditions.

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “and he took [them].”

⁵ tn Heb “In his days.”

⁶ 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.

⁷ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”

⁸ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁹ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”