Discovery Box2 Kings 3:9 
Context3:9 So the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom 1 set out together. They wandered around on the road for seven days and finally ran out of water for the men and animals they had with them.
2 Kings 3:14
Context3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all 2 lives (whom I serve), 3 if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah, 4 I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you. 5
2 Kings 8:23
Context8:23 The rest of the events of Joram’s reign, including a record of his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 6
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 7 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 8 for sixteen years.
2 Kings 13:12
Context13:12 The rest of the events of Joash’s 9 reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 10
2 Kings 14:10
Context14:10 You thoroughly defeated Edom 11 and it has gone to your head! 12 Gloat over your success, 13 but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” 14
2 Kings 14:15
Context14:15 The rest of the events of Jehoash’s 15 reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 16
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. 17
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 18 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. 19
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 20 for twenty years.
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 21 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 22 to the king of Assyria.”
2 Kings 21:12
Context21:12 So this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I am about to bring disaster on Jerusalem and Judah. The news will reverberate in the ears of those who hear about it. 23
2 Kings 21:16-17
Context21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, 24 in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. 25
21:17 The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign and all his accomplishments, as well as the sinful acts he committed, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 26
2 Kings 22:16
Context22:16 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which the king of Judah has read. 27
2 Kings 22:18
Context22:18 Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the Lord: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says concerning the words you have heard:
2 Kings 23:17
Context23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet 28 who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
2 Kings 23:22
Context23:22 He issued this edict because 29 a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah. 30
2 Kings 23:27
Context23:27 The Lord announced, “I will also spurn Judah, 31 just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose – both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, “I will live there.” 32
2 Kings 24:2
Context24:2 The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets. 33
2 Kings 24:12
Context24:12 King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered 34 to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, 35 took Jehoiachin 36 prisoner.
2 Kings 24:20
Context24:20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence. 37 Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
1 tn Heb “the king of Israel and the king of Judah and the king of Edom.”
2 tn Traditionally “the
3 tn Heb “before whom I stand.”
4 tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”
5 tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”
6 tn Heb “As for the rest of the acts of Joram and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
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 sn Jehoash and Joash are alternate forms of the same name.
10 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Joash, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”
11 tn Or “you have indeed defeated Edom.”
12 tn Heb “and your heart has lifted you up.”
13 tn Heb “be glorified.”
14 tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”
15 sn Jehoash and Joash are alternate forms of the same name.
16 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoash, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”
17 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
18 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
19 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
20 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
21 tn Heb “At that time Hezekiah stripped the doors of the
22 tn Heb “will not be given.”
23 tn Heb “so that everyone who hears it, his two ears will quiver.”
24 tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”
25 tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the
26 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Manasseh, and all which he did, and his sin which he committed, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
27 tn Heb “all the words of the scroll which the king of Judah has read.”
28 tn Heb “man of God.”
29 tn The Hebrew text has simply “because.” The translation attempts to reflect more clearly the logical connection between the king’s order and the narrator’s observation. Another option is to interpret כִּי (ki) as asseverative and translate, “indeed.”
30 tn Heb “because there had not been observed [one] like this Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel and all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.”
31 tn Heb “Also Judah I will turn away from my face.”
32 tn Heb “My name will be there.”
33 tn Heb “he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the
34 tn Heb “came out.”
35 sn That is, the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, 597
36 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
37 tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the
