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2 Kings 18:11

Context
18:11 The king of Assyria deported the people of Israel 1  to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 23:29

Context
23:29 During Josiah’s reign Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt marched toward 2  the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to fight him, but Necho 3  killed him at Megiddo 4  when he saw him.

2 Kings 24:7

Context
24:7 The king of Egypt did not march out from his land again, for the king of Babylon conquered all the territory that the king of Egypt had formerly controlled between the Brook of Egypt and the Euphrates River.

1 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

2 tn Heb “went up to.” The idiom עַלעָלָה (’alah …’al) can sometimes mean “go up against,” but here it refers to Necho’s attempt to aid the Assyrians in their struggle with the Babylonians.

3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Necho) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

4 map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.



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