2 Kings 3:26
3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, 1 he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack 2 the king of Edom, but they failed.
2 Kings 6:9
6:9 But the prophet sent this message to the king of Israel, “Make sure you don’t pass through this place because Syria is invading there.”
2 Kings 8:10
8:10 Elisha said to him, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover,’ 3 but the Lord has revealed to me that he will surely die.”
2 Kings 8:19
8:19 But the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah. He preserved Judah for the sake of 4 his servant David to whom he had promised a perpetual dynasty. 5
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; 6 he drives recklessly.”
2 Kings 14:11
14:11 But Amaziah would not heed the warning, 7 so King Jehoash of Israel attacked. 8 He and King Amaziah of Judah met face to face 9 in Beth Shemesh of Judah.
2 Kings 14:19
14:19 Conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, 10 so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him 11 and they killed him there.
2 Kings 16:5
16:5 At that time King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel attacked Jerusalem. 12 They besieged Ahaz, 13 but were unable to conquer him. 14
2 Kings 17:2
17:2 He did evil in the sight of 15 the Lord, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.
2 Kings 17:14
17:14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, 16 who had not trusted the Lord their God.
2 Kings 20:10
20:10 Hezekiah answered, “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps, but not for it 17 to go back ten steps.”
2 Kings 21:9
21:9 But they did not obey, 18 and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.
2 Kings 23:23
23:23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, such a Passover of the Lord was observed in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 24:1
24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, 19 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. 20 Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. 21
2 Kings 25:5
25:5 But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with him in the plains of Jericho, 22 and his entire army deserted him.
1 tn Heb “and the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him.”
2 tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”
3 tc The consonantal text (Kethib) reads, “Go, say, ‘Surely you will not (לֹא, lo’) recover” In this case the vav beginning the next clause should be translated, “for, because.” The marginal reading (Qere) has, “Go, say to him (לוֹ, lo), ‘You will surely recover.” In this case the vav (ו) beginning the next clause should be translated, “although, but.” The Qere has the support of some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions, and is consistent with v. 14, where Hazael tells the king, “You will surely recover.” It is possible that a scribe has changed לוֹ, “to him,” to לֹא, “not,” because he felt that Elisha would not lie to the king. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 90. Another possibility is that a scribe has decided to harmonize Elisha’s message with Hazael’s words in v. 14. But it is possible that Hazael, once he found out he would become the next king, decided to lie to the king to facilitate his assassination plot by making the king feel secure.
4 tn The Hebrew has only one sentence, “and the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah for the sake of.” The translation divides it for the sake of clarity.
5 tn Heb “just as he had promised to give him and his sons a lamp all the days.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty; this is reflected in the translation.
6 tn Heb “and the driving is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi.”
7 tn Heb “did not listen.”
8 tn Heb “went up.”
9 tn Heb “looked at each other [in the] face.”
10 tn Heb “and they conspired against him [with] a conspiracy in Jerusalem.”
11 tn Heb “and they sent after him to Lachish.”
12 tn Heb “went up to Jerusalem for battle.”
13 tn That is, Jerusalem, Ahaz’s capital city.
14 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.
15 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
16 tn Heb and they stiffened their neck like the neck of their fathers.”
17 tn Heb “the shadow.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
18 tn Heb “listen.”
19 tn Heb “In his days.”
20 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.
21 tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”
22 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.