2 Kings 1:17

1:17 He died just as the Lord had prophesied through Elijah. ¹  In the second year of the reign of King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah, Ahaziah’s brother Jehoram replaced him as king of Israel, because he had no son. ² 

2 Kings 13:1

Jehoahaz’s Reign over Israel

13:1 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 ³  for seventeen years.

2 Kings 14:23

Jeroboam II’s Reign over Israel

14:23 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. ⁴ 

2 Kings 17:6

17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel ⁵  to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 24:12

24:12 King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered ⁶  to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, ⁷  took Jehoiachin ⁸  prisoner.

2 Kings 25:1

25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside ⁹  it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ¹¹  day of the twelfth month, ¹²  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ¹³  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ¹⁴  from prison.

¹ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke through Elijah.”

² tn Heb “Jehoram replaced him as king…because he had no son.” Some ancient textual witnesses add “his brother,” which was likely added on the basis of the statement later in the verse that Ahaziah had no son.

³ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁵ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁷ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

⁹ tn Heb “came out.”

¹⁰ sn That is, the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, 597 b.c.

¹¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Or “against.”

¹² sn This would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

¹³ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

¹⁴ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

¹⁵ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

¹⁶ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.