Discovery Box2 Kings 1:17 
Context1:17 He died just as the Lord had prophesied through Elijah. 1 In the second year of the reign of King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah, Ahaziah’s brother Jehoram replaced him as king of Israel, because he had no son. 2
2 Kings 17:6
Context17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel 3 to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 20:20
Context20:20 The rest of the events of Hezekiah’s reign and all his accomplishments, including how he built a pool and conduit to bring 4 water into the city, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 5
2 Kings 25:1
Context25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside 6 it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. 7
2 Kings 25:27
Context25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh 8 day of the twelfth month, 9 King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 10 King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 11 from prison.
1 tn Heb “according to the word of the
2 tn Heb “Jehoram replaced him as king…because he had no son.” Some ancient textual witnesses add “his brother,” which was likely added on the basis of the statement later in the verse that Ahaziah had no son.
3 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.
4 tn Heb “and he brought.”
5 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Hezekiah, and all his strength, and how he made a pool and a conduit and brought water to the city, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
6 tn Or “against.”
7 sn This would have been Jan 15, 588
8 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
9 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561
10 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
11 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.
