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 3:27

3:27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel, 3  so they broke off the attack 4  and returned to their homeland.

2 Kings 12:21

12:21 His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. 5  He was buried 6  with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 15:25

15:25 His officer Pekah son of Remaliah conspired against him. He and fifty Gileadites assassinated Pekahiah, as well as Argob and Arieh, in Samaria in the fortress of the royal palace. 7  Pekah then took his place as king.

2 Kings 19:37

19:37 One day, 8  as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, 9  his sons 10  Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. 11  They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

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 tn Heb “there was great anger against Israel.”

4 tn Heb “they departed from him.”

5 tn Heb “struck him down and he died.”

6 tn Heb “they buried him.”

7 tn Heb “and he struck him down in Samaria in the fortress of the house of the king, Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men from the sons of the Gileadites, and they killed him.”

9 sn The assassination probably took place in 681 b.c.

10 sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.

11 tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions. Cf. Isa 37:38.

12 sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.