2 Kings 3:21

3:21 Now all Moab had heard that the kings were attacking, ¹  so everyone old enough to fight was mustered and placed at the border. ² 

2 Kings 4:5

4:5 So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.

2 Kings 5:3

5:3 She told her mistress, “If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria! ³  Then he would cure him of his skin disease.”

2 Kings 10:11

10:11 Then Jehu killed all who were left of Ahab’s family in Jezreel, and all his nobles, close friends, and priests. He left no survivors.

2 Kings 10:17

10:17 He went to Samaria and exterminated all the members of Ahab’s family who were still alive in Samaria, ⁴  just as the Lord had announced to Elijah. ⁵ 

2 Kings 11:10

11:10 The priest gave to the officers of the units of hundreds King David’s spears and the shields that were kept in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 13:5

13:5 The Lord provided a deliverer ⁶  for Israel and they were freed from Syria’s power. ⁷  The Israelites once more lived in security. ⁸ 

2 Kings 16:5

16:5 At that time King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel attacked Jerusalem. ⁹  They besieged Ahaz, ¹⁰  but were unable to conquer him. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 17:9

17:9 The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right. ¹²  They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress. ¹³ 

2 Kings 17:14

17:14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, ¹⁴  who had not trusted the Lord their God.

2 Kings 17:25

17:25 When they first moved in, ¹⁵  they did not worship ¹⁶  the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.

2 Kings 17:33

17:33 They were worshiping ¹⁷  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 19:12

19:12 Were the nations whom my ancestors destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods? ¹⁸ 

2 Kings 23:7

23:7 He tore down the quarters ¹⁹  of the male cultic prostitutes in the Lord’s temple, where women were weaving shrines ²⁰  for Asherah.

2 Kings 25:28

25:28 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than ²¹  the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

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¹ tn Heb “had come up to fight them.”

² tn Heb “and they mustered all who tied on a belt and upwards, and they stood at the border.”

³ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁴ tn Heb “and he struck down all the remaining ones to Ahab in Samaria until he destroyed him.”

⁵ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to Elijah.”

⁶ sn The identity of this unnamed “deliverer” is debated. For options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 143.

⁷ tn Heb “and they went from under the hand of Syria.”

⁸ tn Heb “and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as before.”

⁹ tn Heb “went up to Jerusalem for battle.”

¹⁰ tn That is, Jerusalem, Ahaz’s capital city.

¹¹ 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.

¹² tn The meaning of the verb וַיְחַפְּאוּ (vayÿkhappÿ’u), translated here “said,” is uncertain. Some relate it to the verbal root חָפַה (khafah), “to cover,” and translate “they did it in secret” (see BDB 341 s.v. חָפָא). However, the pagan practices specified in the following sentences were hardly done in secret. Others propose a meaning “ascribe, impute,” which makes good contextual sense but has little etymological support (see HALOT 339 s.v. חפא). In this case Israel claimed that the Lord authorized their pagan practices.

¹³ sn That is, from the city’s perimeter to the central citadel.

¹⁴ tn Heb and they stiffened their neck like the neck of their fathers.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “in the beginning of their living there.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “fear.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “fearing.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them – Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?”

¹⁹ tn Or “cubicles.” Heb “houses.”

²⁰ tn Heb “houses.” Perhaps tent-shrines made from cloth are in view (see BDB 109 s.v. בַּיִת). M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 286) understand this as referring to clothes made for images of the goddess.

²¹ tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of.”