2 Kings 9:7

9:7 You will destroy the family of your master Ahab.¹ I will get revenge against Jezebel for the shed blood of my servants the prophets and for the shed blood of all the Lord’s servants.²

2 Kings 9:33

9:33 He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down, and when she hit the ground,³ her blood splattered against the wall and the horses, and Jehu drove his chariot over her.⁴

2 Kings 10:9-10

10:9 In the morning he went out and stood there. Then he said to all the people, “You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all of these men? 10:10 Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the Lord announced against Ahab’s dynasty has failed to materialize. The Lord had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.”⁵

2 Kings 15:25

15:25 His officer Pekah son of Remaliah conspired against him. He and fifty Gileadites assassinated Pekahiah, as well as Argob and Arieh, in Samaria in the fortress of the royal palace.⁶ Pekah then took his place as king.

2 Kings 15:30

15:30 Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He assassinated him⁷ and took his place as king, in the twentieth year of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah.

2 Kings 17:7

A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History

17:7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of⁸ Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped⁹ other gods;

2 Kings 18:9

18:9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched¹⁰ up against Samaria¹¹ and besieged it.

2 Kings 19:6

19:6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me.¹²

2 Kings 19:28

19:28 Because you rage against me,

and the uproar you create has reached my ears;¹³

I will put my hook in your nose,¹⁴

and my bridle between your lips,

and I will lead you back the way

you came.”

2 Kings 22:17

22:17 This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices¹⁵ to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made.¹⁶ My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!’”

2 Kings 24:2

24:2 The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets.¹⁷

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.¹⁸ Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

¹tn Or “strike down the house of Ahab your master.”

²tn Heb “I will avenge the shed blood of my servants the prophets and the shed blood of all the servants of the Lord from the hand of Jezebel.”

³tn The words “when she hit the ground” are added for stylistic reasons.

⁴tn Heb “and he trampled her.”

⁵tn Heb “Know then that there has not fallen from the word of the Lord to the ground that which the Lord spoke against the house of Ahab. The Lord has done that which he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah.”

⁶tn Heb “and he struck him down in Samaria in the fortress of the house of the king, Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men from the sons of the Gileadites, and they killed him.”

sn The precise identity of Argob and Arieh, as well as their relationship to the king, are uncertain. The usual assumption is that they were officials assassinated along with Pekahiah, or that they were two of the more prominent Gileadites involved in the revolt. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 173.

⁷tn Heb “and struck him down and killed him.”

⁸tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁹tn Heb “feared.”

¹⁰tn Heb “went” (also in v. 13).

¹¹map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

¹²tn Heb “by which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.”

¹³tc Heb “and your complacency comes up into my ears.” The parallelism is improved if שַׁאֲנַנְךְ (sha’anankh), “your complacency,” is emended to שַׁאֲוַנְךְ (sha’avankh), “your uproar.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 237-38.

¹⁴sn The word picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.

¹⁵tn Or “burned incense.”

¹⁶tn Heb “angering me with all the work of their hands.” The translation assumes that this refers to idols they have manufactured (note the preceding reference to “other gods,” as well as 19:18). However, it is possible that this is a general reference to their sinful practices, in which case one might translate, “angering me by all the things they do.”

¹⁷tn Heb “he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by the hand of his servants the prophets.”

¹⁸tn 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.”