Discovery Box2 Kings 3:10 
Context3:10 The king of Israel said, “Oh no! 1 Certainly the Lord has summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to the king of Moab!”
2 Kings 4:14
Context4:14 So he asked Gehazi, 2 “What can I do for her?” Gehazi replied, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”
2 Kings 4:16
Context4:16 He said, “About this time next year 3 you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”
2 Kings 6:5
Context6:5 As one of them was felling a log, the ax head 4 dropped into the water. He shouted, “Oh no, 5 my master! It was borrowed!”
2 Kings 7:5
Context7:5 So they started toward 6 the Syrian camp at dusk. When they reached the edge of the Syrian camp, there was no one there.
2 Kings 10:11
Context10:11 Then Jehu killed all who were left of Ahab’s family in Jezreel, and all his nobles, close friends, and priests. He left no survivors.
2 Kings 23:10
Context23:10 The king 7 ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech. 8
2 Kings 23:25
Context23:25 No king before or after repented before the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses. 9
2 Kings 25:3
Context25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month 10 the famine in the city was so severe the residents 11 had no food.
1 tn Or “ah.”
2 tn Heb “and he said.”
3 tn Heb “at this appointed time, at the time [when it is] reviving.” For a discussion of the second phrase see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.
4 tn Heb “iron.”
5 tn Or “ah.”
6 tn Heb “they arose to go to.”
7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.
9 tn Heb “and like him there was not a king before him who returned to the
sn The description of Josiah’s devotion as involving his whole “heart, soul, and being” echoes the language of Deut 6:5.
10 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
11 tn Heb “the people of the land.”
