2 Kings 3:23

3:23 The Moabites¹ said, “It’s blood! The kings are totally destroyed!² They have struck one another down! Now, Moab, seize the plunder!”

2 Kings 4:4

4:4 Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers;³ set aside each one when you have filled it.”

2 Kings 6:5

6:5 As one of them was felling a log, the ax head⁴ dropped into the water. He shouted, “Oh no,⁵ my master! It was borrowed!”

2 Kings 6:11

6:11 This made the king of Syria upset.⁶ So he summoned his advisers⁷ and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.”⁸

2 Kings 7:5

7:5 So they started toward⁹ the Syrian camp at dusk. When they reached the edge of the Syrian camp, there was no one there.

2 Kings 9:20

9:20 The watchman reported, “He reached them, but hasn’t started back. The one who drives the lead chariot drives like Jehu son of Nimshi;¹⁰ he drives recklessly.”

2 Kings 10:22

10:22 Jehu ordered the one who was in charge of the wardrobe,¹¹ “Bring out robes for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out robes for them.

2 Kings 11:5

11:5 He ordered them, “This is what you must do. One third of the unit that is on duty during the Sabbath will guard the royal palace.

2 Kings 15:13

15:13 Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of King Uzziah’s¹² reign over Judah. He reigned for one month¹³ in Samaria.

2 Kings 17:28

17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel.¹⁴ He taught them how to worship¹⁵ the Lord.

2 Kings 18:24

18:24 Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.¹⁶

2 Kings 19:22

19:22 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at?

At whom have you shouted,¹⁷

and looked so arrogantly?¹⁸

At the Holy One of Israel!¹⁹

2 Kings 22:1

Josiah Repents

22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem.²⁰ His mother²¹ was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath.

2 Kings 23:10

23:10 The king²² ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech.²³

¹tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Moabites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²tn The translation assumes the verb is חָרַב (kharav, “to be desolate”). The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb form for emphasis. (For another example of the Hophal infinitive with a Niphal finite verb, see Lev 19:20. Cf. also IBHS 582 §35.2.1c.) Some prefer to derive the verb from a proposed homonym meaning “at HALOT 349 s.v. II חרב and BDB 352 s.v. חָרְבָה).

³tn Heb “all these vessels.”

⁴tn Heb “iron.”

⁵tn Or “ah.”

⁶tn Heb “and the heart of the king of Syria was stirred up over this thing.”

⁷tn Heb “servants.”

⁸tn Heb “Will you not tell me who among us [is] for the king of Israel?” The sarcastic rhetorical question expresses the king’s suspicion.

⁹tn Heb “they arose to go to.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and the driving is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi.”

¹¹tn Heb “and he said to the one who was over the wardrobe.”

¹²sn Azariah was also known by the name Uzziah.

¹³tn Heb “a month of days.”

¹⁴map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

¹⁵tn Heb “fear.”

¹⁶tn Heb “How can you turn back the face of an official [from among] the least of my master’s servants and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?” In vv. 23-24 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 21. His reasoning seems to be as follows: “In your weakened condition you obviously need military strength. Agree to the king’s terms and I will personally give you more horses than you are capable of outfitting. If I, a mere minor official, am capable of giving you such military might, just think what power the king has. There is no way the Egyptians can match our strength. It makes much better sense to deal with us.”

¹⁷tn Heb “have you raised a voice.”

¹⁸tn Heb “and lifted your eyes on high?”

¹⁹sn This divine title pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.

²⁰map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

²¹tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

²²tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²³sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.