Discovery Box2 Kings 1:5 
Context1:5 When the messengers returned to the king, 1 he asked them, “Why have you returned?”
2 Kings 3:6
Context3:6 At that time King Jehoram left Samaria and assembled all Israel for war.
2 Kings 6:24
Context6:24 Later King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled his entire army and attacked 2 and besieged Samaria. 3
2 Kings 9:29
Context9:29 Ahaziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab.
2 Kings 10:35
Context10:35 Jehu passed away 4 and was buried in Samaria. 5 His son Jehoahaz replaced him as king.
2 Kings 13:9
Context13:9 Jehoahaz passed away 6 and was buried 7 in Samaria. His son Joash replaced him as king.
2 Kings 13:22
Context13:22 Now King Hazael of Syria oppressed Israel throughout Jehoahaz’s reign. 8
2 Kings 14:22
Context14:22 Azariah 9 built up Elat and restored it to Judah after the king 10 had passed away. 11
2 Kings 15:22
Context15:22 Menahem passed away 12 and his son Pekahiah replaced him as king.
2 Kings 17:3-4
Context17:3 King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened 13 him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute. 17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. 14 Hoshea had sent messengers to King So 15 of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. 16
2 Kings 18:14
Context18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty. 17 If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” 18 So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents 19 of silver and thirty talents of gold.
2 Kings 20:21
Context20:21 Hezekiah passed away 20 and his son Manasseh replaced him as king.
2 Kings 21:23
Context21:23 Amon’s servants conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.
2 Kings 22:11
Context22:11 When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.
2 Kings 24:6
Context24:6 He passed away 21 and his son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.
2 Kings 24:11
Context24:11 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his generals were besieging it.
2 Kings 25:2
Context25:2 The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
1 tn Heb “to him.”
sn The narrative is elliptical and telescoped here. The account of Elijah encountering the messengers and delivering the Lord’s message is omitted; we only here of it as the messengers report what happened to the king.
2 tn Heb “went up.”
3 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
4 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
5 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
6 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
7 tn Heb “and they buried him.”
8 tn Heb “all the days of Jehoahaz.”
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Azariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 sn This must refer to Amaziah.
11 tn Heb “lay with his fathers.”
12 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
13 tn Heb “went up against.”
14 tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”
15 sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.
16 tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”
17 tn Or “I have done wrong.”
18 tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”
19 tn 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 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.
20 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
21 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
