2 Kings 3:27

3:27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel,¹ so they broke off the attack² and returned to their homeland.

2 Kings 7:17

7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man³ at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate.⁴ This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him.⁵

2 Kings 8:6

8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details.⁶ The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him,⁷ “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

2 Kings 9:26

9:26 ‘“Know for sure that I saw the shed blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday,” says the Lord, “and that I will give you what you deserve right here in this plot of land,”⁸ says the Lord.’ So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as the Lord said.”⁹

2 Kings 11:2

11:2 So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked¹⁰ him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored.¹¹ So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution.¹²

2 Kings 17:4

17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt.¹³ Hoshea had sent messengers to King So¹⁴ of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.¹⁵

2 Kings 18:21

18:21 Now look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If a man leans for support on it, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him.

2 Kings 19:4

19:4 Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God.¹⁶ When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said.¹⁷ So pray for this remnant that remains.’”¹⁸

2 Kings 20:1

Hezekiah is Healed

20:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness.¹⁹ The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”²⁰

2 Kings 23:30

23:30 His servants transported his dead body²¹ from Megiddo in a chariot and brought it to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his tomb. The people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, poured olive oil on his head,²² and made him king in his father’s place.

¹tn Heb “there was great anger against Israel.”

sn The meaning of this statement is uncertain, for the subject of the anger is not indicated. Except for two relatively late texts, the noun קֶצֶף (qetsef) refers to an outburst of divine anger. But it seems unlikely the Lord would be angry with Israel, for he placed his stamp of approval on the campaign (vv. 16-19). D. N. Freedman suggests the narrator, who obviously has a bias against the Omride dynasty, included this observation to show that the Lord would not allow the Israelite king to “have an undiluted victory” (as quoted in M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings [AB], 52, n. 8). Some suggest that the original source identified Chemosh the Moabite god as the subject and that his name was later suppressed by a conscientious scribe, but this proposal raises more questions than it answers. For a discussion of various views, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 47-48, 51-52.

²tn Heb “they departed from him.”

³tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”

⁴tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”

⁵tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”

⁶tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

⁷tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

⁸tn Heb “and I will repay you in this plot of land.”

⁹tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord.”

¹⁰tn Heb “stole.”

¹¹tn Heb “him and his nurse in an inner room of beds.” The verb is missing in the Hebrew text. The parallel passage in 2 Chr 22:11 has “and she put” at the beginning of the clause. M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 126) regard the Chronicles passage as an editorial attempt to clarify the difficulty of the original text. They prefer to take “him and his nurse” as objects of the verb “stole” and understand “in the bedroom” as the place where the royal descendants were executed. The phrase בַּחֲדַר הַמִּטּוֹת (bakhadar hammittot), “an inner room of beds,” is sometimes understood as referring to a bedroom (HALOT 293 s.v. חֶדֶר), though some prefer to see here a “room where the covers and cloths were kept for the beds (HALOT 573 s.v. מִטָּת). In either case, it may have been a temporary hideout, for v. 3 indicates that the child hid in the temple for six years.

¹²tn Heb “and they hid him from Athaliah and he was not put to death.” The subject of the plural verb (“they hid”) is probably indefinite.

¹³tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”

¹⁴sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.

¹⁵tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”

¹⁶tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.”

¹⁷tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the Lord your God hears.”

¹⁸tn Heb “and lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.”

¹⁹tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying.”

²⁰tn Heb “will not live.”

²¹tn Heb “him, dead.”

²²tn Or “anointed him.”