Discovery Box2 Kings 8:3 
Context8:3 After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field. 1
2 Kings 14:17
Context14:17 King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz of Israel.
2 Kings 14:19
Context14:19 Conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, 2 so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him 3 and they killed him there.
2 Kings 18:5
Context18:5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; in this regard there was none like him among the kings of Judah either before or after. 4
2 Kings 19:21
Context19:21 This is what the Lord says about him: 5
“The virgin daughter Zion 6
despises you, she makes fun of you;
Daughter Jerusalem
shakes her head after you. 7
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. 8
2 Kings 25:5
Context25:5 But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with him in the plains of Jericho, 9 and his entire army deserted him.
1 tn Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”
2 tn Heb “and they conspired against him [with] a conspiracy in Jerusalem.”
3 tn Heb “and they sent after him to Lachish.”
4 tn Heb “and after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, and those who were before him.”
5 tn Heb “this is the word which the
6 sn Zion (Jerusalem) is pictured here as a young, vulnerable daughter whose purity is being threatened by the would-be Assyrian rapist. The personification hints at the reality which the young girls of the city would face if the Assyrians conquer it.
7 sn Shaking the head was a mocking gesture of derision.
8 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.
9 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
