Discovery Box2 Kings 15:13 
Context15:13 Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of King Uzziah’s 1 reign over Judah. He reigned for one month 2 in Samaria.
2 Kings 25:3
Context25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month 3 the famine in the city was so severe the residents 4 had no food.
1 sn Azariah was also known by the name Uzziah.
2 tn Heb “a month of days.”
3 tn The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.
sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586
4 tn Heb “the people of the land.”
