Discovery Box2 Kings 9:8 
Context9:8 Ahab’s entire family will die. I 1 will cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. 2
2 Kings 11:1
Context11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line. 3
2 Kings 25:5
Context25:5 But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with him in the plains of Jericho, 4 and his entire army deserted him.
1 tc The LXX has the second person, “you.”
2 tn Heb “and I will cut off from Ahab those who urinate against a wall, [including both those who are] restrained and let free [or, ‘abandoned’] in Israel.” On the phrase וְעָצוּר וְעָזוּב (vÿ’atsur vÿ’azur, translated here “weak and incapacitated”) see the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.
3 tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum) “arise,” is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.
4 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
