Discovery Box2 Kings 6:23 
Context6:23 So he threw a big banquet 1 for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back 2 to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.
2 Kings 7:15
Context7:15 So they tracked them 3 as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. 4 The scouts 5 went back and told the king.
2 Kings 8:21
Context8:21 Joram 6 crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers. 7 The Israelite army retreated to their homeland. 8
2 Kings 10:7
Context10:7 When they received the letter, they seized the king’s sons and executed all seventy of them. 9 They put their heads in baskets and sent them to him in Jezreel.
2 Kings 11:11-12
Context11:11 The royal bodyguard 10 took their stations, each holding his weapon in his hand. They lined up from the south side of the temple to the north side and stood near the altar and the temple, surrounding the king. 11 11:12 Jehoiada 12 led out the king’s son and placed on him the crown and the royal insignia. 13 They proclaimed him king and poured olive oil on his head. 14 They clapped their hands and cried out, “Long live the king!”
2 Kings 17:7
Context17:7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of 15 Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped 16 other gods;
2 Kings 17:16-17
Context17:16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, 17 and worshiped 18 Baal. 17:17 They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, 19 and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry. 20
2 Kings 17:21
Context17:21 He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. 21 Jeroboam drove Israel away 22 from the Lord and encouraged them to commit a serious sin. 23
2 Kings 17:34
Context17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship 24 the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave 25 the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.
2 Kings 18:12
Context18:12 This happened because they did not obey 26 the Lord their God and broke his agreement with them. 27 They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded. 28
2 Kings 18:37
Context18:37 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn 29 and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.
2 Kings 21:8
Context21:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, 30 provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law my servant Moses ordered them to obey.”
2 Kings 21:16
Context21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, 31 in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. 32
2 Kings 23:9
Context23:9 (Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.) 33
1 tn Or “held a great feast.”
2 tn Heb “they went back.”
3 tn Heb “went after.”
4 tn Heb “and look, all the road was full of clothes and equipment that Syria had thrown away in their haste.”
5 tn Or “messengers.”
6 sn Joram is a short form of the name Jehoram.
7 tn Heb “and he arose at night and defeated Edom, who had surrounded him, and the chariot officers.” The Hebrew text as it stands gives the impression that Joram was surrounded and launched a victorious night counterattack. It would then be quite natural to understand the last statement in the verse to refer to an Edomite retreat. Yet v. 22 goes on to state that the Edomite revolt was successful. Therefore, if the MT is retained, it may be better to understand the final statement in v. 21 as a reference to an Israelite retreat (made in spite of the success described in the preceding sentence). The translation above assumes an emendation of the Hebrew text. Adding a third masculine singular pronominal suffix to the accusative sign before Edom (reading אֶתוֹ [’eto], “him,” instead of just אֶת [’et]) and taking Edom as the subject of verbs allows one to translate the verse in a way that is more consistent with the context, which depicts an Israelite defeat, not victory. There is, however, no evidence for this emendation.
8 tn Heb “and the people fled to their tents.”
9 tn Heb “and when the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered seventy men.”
10 tn Heb “the runners” (also in v. 19).
11 tn Heb “and the runners stood, each with his weapons in his hand, from the south shoulder of the house to the north shoulder of the house, at the altar and at the house, near the king all around.”
12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
13 tn The Hebrew term עֵדוּת (’edut) normally means “witness” or “testimony.” Here it probably refers to some tangible symbol of kingship, perhaps a piece of jewelry such as an amulet or neck chain. See the discussion in M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 128. Some suggest that a document is in view, perhaps a copy of the royal protocol or of the stipulations of the Davidic covenant. See HALOT 790-91 s.v. עֵדוּת.
14 tn Or “they made him king and anointed him.”
15 tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons.
16 tn Heb “feared.”
17 tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.
18 tn Or “served.”
19 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.
20 tn Heb “they sold themselves to doing what was evil in the eyes of the
21 tn Heb “and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king.”
22 tc The consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the verb is נָדָא (nada’), an alternate form of נָדָה (nadah), “push away.” The marginal reading (Qere) assumes the verb נָדָח (nadakh), “drive away.”
23 tn Heb “a great sin.”
24 tn Heb “fear.”
25 tn Heb “commanded.”
26 tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”
27 tn Heb “his covenant.”
28 tn Heb “all that Moses, the
29 sn As a sign of grief and mourning.
30 tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I gave to their fathers.”
31 tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”
32 tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the
33 tn Heb “their brothers.”
