2 Kings 8:26

8:26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem.¹ His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter² of King Omri of Israel.

2 Kings 16:2

16:2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.³ He did not do what pleased the Lord his God, in contrast to his ancestor David.⁴

2 Kings 18:2

18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem.⁵ His mother⁶ was Abi,⁷ the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Kings 19:10

19:10 “Tell King Hezekiah of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust mislead you when he says, “Jerusalem will not be handed over⁸ to the king of Assyria.”

2 Kings 21:12

21:12 So this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I am about to bring disaster on Jerusalem and Judah. The news will reverberate in the ears of those who hear about it.⁹

2 Kings 21:16

21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end,¹⁰ in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord.¹¹

2 Kings 21:19

Amon’s Reign over Judah

21:19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem.¹² His mother¹³ was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz, from Jotbah.

2 Kings 23:6

23:6 He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it.¹⁴ He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard.¹⁵

2 Kings 23:9

23:9 (Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.)¹⁶

2 Kings 23:13

23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction,¹⁷ that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.

2 Kings 23:27

23:27 The Lord announced, “I will also spurn Judah,¹⁸ just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose – both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, “I will live there.”¹⁹

2 Kings 23:33

23:33 Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath and prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem.²⁰ He imposed on the land a special tax²¹ of one hundred talents²² of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Kings 23:36

Jehoiakim’s Reign over Judah

23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem.²³ His mother was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah.

2 Kings 24:18

Zedekiah’s Reign over Judah

24:18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem.²⁴ His mother²⁵ was Hamutal,²⁶ the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

2 Kings 24:20

24:20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence.²⁷ Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh²⁸ day of the fifth month,²⁹ in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard³⁰ who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.³¹

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²tn Hebrew בַּת (bat), “daughter,” can refer, as here to a granddaughter. See HALOT 166 s.v. בַּת.

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⁴tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord his God, like David his father.”

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⁶tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

⁷tn The parallel passage in 2 Chr 29:1 has “Abijah.”

⁸tn Heb “will not be given.”

⁹tn Heb “so that everyone who hears it, his two ears will quiver.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”

¹¹tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

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¹³tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and he burned it in the Kidron Valley.”

¹⁵tc Heb “on the grave of the sons of the people.” Some Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses read the plural “graves.”

tn The phrase “sons of the people” refers here to the common people (see BDB 766 s.v. עַם), as opposed to the upper classes who would have private tombs.

¹⁶tn Heb “their brothers.”

¹⁷sn This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mashÿkhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mashÿkhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.

¹⁸tn Heb “Also Judah I will turn away from my face.”

¹⁹tn Heb “My name will be there.”

²⁰tc The consonantal text (Kethib) has “when [he was] ruling in Jerusalem,” but the marginal reading (Qere), which has support from Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses, has “[preventing him] from ruling in Jerusalem.”

²¹tn Or “fine.”

²²tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “almost four tons of silver and about seventy-five pounds of gold.”

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²⁵tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

²⁶tc Some textual witnesses support the consonantal text (Kethib) in reading “Hamital.”

²⁷tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the Lord this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until he threw them out from upon his face.”

²⁸tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

²⁹sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

³⁰tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

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