Discovery Box2 Kings 3:1 
Context3:1 In the eighteenth year of King Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Ahab’s son Jehoram became king over Israel in Samaria; 1 he ruled for twelve years.
2 Kings 5:3
Context5:3 She told her mistress, “If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria! 2 Then he would cure him of his skin disease.”
2 Kings 15:13-14
Context15:13 Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of King Uzziah’s 3 reign over Judah. He reigned for one month 4 in Samaria. 15:14 Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to 5 Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh. 6 He killed him and took his place as king.
2 Kings 15:23
Context15:23 In the fiftieth year of King Azariah’s reign over Judah, Menahem’s son Pekahiah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria 7 for two years.
2 Kings 17:1
Context17:1 In the twelfth year of King Ahaz’s reign over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria 8 for nine years.
2 Kings 17:28
Context17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. 9 He taught them how to worship 10 the Lord.
2 Kings 18:34
Context18:34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? 11 Indeed, did any gods rescue Samaria 12 from my power? 13
1 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
2 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
3 sn Azariah was also known by the name Uzziah.
4 tn Heb “a month of days.”
5 tn Heb “and came to.”
6 tn Heb “went up from Tirzah and arrived in Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria.”
7 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
8 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
9 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
10 tn Heb “fear.”
11 tn The parallel passage in Isa 36:19 omits “Hena and Ivvah.” The rhetorical questions in v. 34a suggest the answer, “Nowhere, they seem to have disappeared in the face of Assyria’s might.”
12 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
13 tn Heb “that they rescued Samaria from my hand?” But this gives the impression that the gods of Sepharvaim were responsible for protecting Samaria, which is obviously not the case. The implied subject of the plural verb “rescued” must be the generic “gods of the nations/lands” (vv. 33, 35).
