2 Kings 3:20

3:20 Sure enough, the next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water came flowing down from Edom and filled the land. ¹ 

2 Kings 4:16-17

4:16 He said, “About this time next year ²  you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!” 4:17 The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

2 Kings 8:22

8:22 So Edom has remained free from Judah’s control to this very day. ³  At that same time Libnah also rebelled.

2 Kings 16:5-6

16:5 At that time King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel attacked Jerusalem. ⁴  They besieged Ahaz, ⁵  but were unable to conquer him. ⁶  16:6 (At that time King Rezin of Syria ⁷  recovered Elat for Syria; he drove the Judahites from there. ⁸  Syrians ⁹  arrived in Elat and live there to this very day.)

2 Kings 17:32-33

17:32 At the same time they worshiped ¹⁰  the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. ¹¹  17:33 They were worshiping ¹²  the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.

2 Kings 20:12

Messengers from Babylon Visit Hezekiah

20:12 At that time Merodach-Baladan ¹³  son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah was ill.

2 Kings 21:15

21:15 because they have done evil in my sight ¹⁴  and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”

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¹ tn Heb “and in the morning, when the offering is offered up, look, water was coming from the way of Edom, and the land was filled with water.”

² tn Heb “at this appointed time, at the time [when it is] reviving.” For a discussion of the second phrase see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.

³ tn Heb “and Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah until this day.”

⁴ tn Heb “went up to Jerusalem for battle.”

⁵ tn That is, Jerusalem, Ahaz’s capital city.

⁶ tn Heb “they were unable to fight.” The object must be supplied from the preceding sentence. Elsewhere when the Niphal infinitive of לָחָם (lakham) follows the verb יָכֹל (yakhol), the infinitive appears to have the force of “prevail against.” See Num 22:11; 1 Sam 17:9; and the parallel passage in Isa 7:1.

⁷ tc Some prefer to read “the king of Edom” and “for Edom” here. The names Syria (Heb “Aram,” אֲרָם, ’aram) and Edom (אֱדֹם, ’edom) are easily confused in the Hebrew consonantal script.

⁸ tn Heb “from Elat.”

⁹ tc The consonantal text (Kethib), supported by many medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac version, and some mss of the Targum and Vulgate, read “Syrians” (Heb “Arameans”). The marginal reading (Qere), supported by the LXX, Targums, and Vulgate, reads “Edomites.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “feared.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and they appointed for themselves from their whole people priests for the high places and they were serving for them in the house[s] of the high places.”

¹² tn Heb “fearing.”

¹³ tc The MT has “Berodach-Baladan,” but several Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses agree with the parallel passage in Isa 39:1 and read “Merodach-Baladan.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “in my eyes.”