2 Kings 4:4
4:4 Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers; 1 set aside each one when you have filled it.”
2 Kings 8:4
8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s 2 servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.”
2 Kings 10:31
10:31 But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the Lord God of Israel. 3 He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit. 4
2 Kings 14:21
14:21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.
2 Kings 17:13
17:13 The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” 5
2 Kings 18:35
18:35 Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’” 6
2 Kings 19:11
19:11 Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. 7 Do you really think you will be rescued? 8
2 Kings 19:24
19:24 I dug wells and drank
water in foreign lands. 9
With the soles of my feet I dried up
all the rivers of Egypt.’
2 Kings 24:3
24:3 Just as the Lord had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins which Manasseh had committed. 10
2 Kings 25:5
25:5 But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with him in the plains of Jericho, 11 and his entire army deserted him.
2 Kings 25:16
25:16 The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the Lord’s temple – including the two pillars, the big bronze basin called “The Sea,” the twelve bronze bulls under “The Sea,” 12 and the movable stands – was too heavy to be weighed.
1 tn Heb “all these vessels.”
2 tn Heb “man of God’s.”
3 tn Heb “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart.”
4 tn Heb “He did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to commit.”
5 tn Heb “obey my commandments and rules according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.”
6 tn Heb “that the Lord might rescue Jerusalem from my hand?” The logic runs as follows: Since no god has ever been able to withstand the Assyrian onslaught, how can the people of Jerusalem possibly think the Lord will rescue them?
7 tn Heb “Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, annihilating them.”
8 tn Heb “and will you be rescued?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No, of course not!”
9 tn Heb “I dug and drank foreign waters.”
10 tn Heb “Certainly according to the word of the Lord this happened against Judah, to remove [them] from his face because of the sins of Manasseh according to all which he did.”
11 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
12 tc The MT lacks “the twelve bronze bulls under ‘the Sea,’” but these words have probably been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton. The scribe’s eye may have jumped from the וְהָ (vÿha-) on וְהַבָּקָר (vÿhabbaqar), “and the bulls,” to the וְהָ on וְהַמְּכֹנוֹת (vÿhammÿkhonot), “and the movable stands,” causing him to leave out the intervening words. See the parallel passage in Jer 52:20.