Discovery Box2 Kings 1:9 
Context1:9 The king 1 sent a captain and his fifty soldiers 2 to retrieve Elijah. 3 The captain 4 went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. 5 He told him, “Prophet, 6 the king says, ‘Come down!’”
2 Kings 1:11
Context1:11 The king 7 sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, 8 “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’” 9
2 Kings 3:4
Context3:4 Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder. 10 He would send as tribute 11 to the king of Israel 100,000 male lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.
2 Kings 5:5
Context5:5 The king of Syria said, “Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman 12 went, taking with him ten talents 13 of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, 14 and ten suits of clothes.
2 Kings 5:8
Context5:8 When Elisha the prophet 15 heard that the king had torn his clothes, he sent this message to the king, “Why did you tear your clothes? Send him 16 to me so he may know there is a prophet in Israel.”
2 Kings 6:12
Context6:12 One of his advisers said, “No, my master, O king. The prophet Elisha who lives in Israel keeps telling the king of Israel the things you say in your bedroom.”
2 Kings 8:26
Context8:26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. 17 His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter 18 of King Omri of Israel.
2 Kings 11:8
Context11:8 You must surround the king. Each of you must hold his weapon in his hand. Whoever approaches your ranks must be killed. You must accompany the king wherever he goes.” 19
2 Kings 13:1
Context13:1 In the twenty-third year of the reign of Judah’s King Joash son of Ahaziah, Jehu’s son Jehoahaz became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria 20 for seventeen years.
2 Kings 13:10
Context13:10 In the thirty-seventh year of King Joash’s reign over Judah, Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria 21 for sixteen years.
2 Kings 14:23
Context14:23 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Judah’s King Amaziah, son of Joash, Jeroboam son of Joash became king over Israel. He reigned for forty-one years in Samaria. 22
2 Kings 15:8
Context15:8 In the thirty-eighth year of King Azariah’s reign over Judah, Jeroboam’s son Zechariah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria 23 for six months.
2 Kings 15:17
Context15:17 In the thirty-ninth year of King Azariah’s reign over Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel. He reigned for twelve years in Samaria. 24
2 Kings 15:27
Context15:27 In the fifty-second year of King Azariah’s reign over Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria 25 for twenty years.
2 Kings 16:11
Context16:11 Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. 26 Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus. 27
2 Kings 18:16
Context18:16 At that time King Hezekiah of Judah stripped the metal overlays from the doors of the Lord’s temple and from the posts which he had plated 28 and gave them to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 19:10
Context19:10 “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 over 29 to the king of Assyria.”
2 Kings 22:3
Context22:3 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, the king sent the scribe Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple with these orders: 30
2 Kings 23:13
Context23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, 31 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 25:8
Context25:8 On the seventh 32 day of the fifth month, 33 in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard 34 who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. 35
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “officer of fifty and his fifty.”
3 tn Heb “to him.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the captain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.
6 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 10, 11, 12, 13).
7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tc The MT reads, “he answered and said to him.” The verb “he answered” (וַיַּעַן, vayya’an) is probably a corruption of “he went up” (וַיַּעַל, vayya’al). See v. 9.
9 sn In this second panel of the three-paneled narrative, the king and his captain are more arrogant than before. The captain uses a more official sounding introduction (“this is what the king says”) and the king adds “at once” to the command.
10 tn For a discussion of the meaning of term (נֹקֵד, noqed), see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 43.
11 tn The vav + perfect here indicates customary action contemporary with the situation described in the preceding main clause. See IBHS 533-34 §32.2.3e.
12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
13 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 750 pounds of silver (cf. NCV, NLT, CEV).
14 tn Heb “six thousand gold […].” The unit of measure is not given in the Hebrew text. A number of English versions supply “pieces” (e.g., KJV, ASV, NAB, TEV) or “shekels” (e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV).
15 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 15, 20).
16 tn Heb “Let him come.”
17 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
18 tn Hebrew בַּת (bat), “daughter,” can refer, as here to a granddaughter. See HALOT 166 s.v. בַּת.
19 tn Heb “and be with the king in his going out and in his coming in.”
20 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
21 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
22 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
23 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
24 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
25 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
26 tn Heb “according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus.”
27 tn Heb “so Uriah the priest did, until the arrival of King Ahaz from Damascus.”
28 tn Heb “At that time Hezekiah stripped the doors of the
29 tn Heb “will not be given.”
30 tn Heb “with these orders, saying.”
31 sn 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.
32 tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”
33 sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586
34 tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.
35 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
