2 Kings 11:17

11:17 Jehoiada then drew up a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, stipulating that they should be loyal to the Lord. ¹ 

2 Kings 14:21

14:21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

2 Kings 14:1

Amaziah’s Reign over Judah

14:1 In the second year of the reign of Israel’s King Joash son of Joahaz, ²  Joash’s ³  son Amaziah became king over Judah.

2 Kings 11:15

11:15 Jehoiada the priest ordered the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, ⁴  “Bring her outside the temple to the guards. ⁵  Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord’s temple. ⁶ 

2 Kings 11:2

11:2 So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked ⁷  him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. ⁸  So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution. ⁹ 

2 Kings 5:3

5:3 She told her mistress, “If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria! ¹⁰  Then he would cure him of his skin disease.”

2 Kings 5:1

Elisha Heals a Syrian General

5:1 Now Naaman, the commander of the king of Syria’s army, was esteemed and respected by his master, ¹¹  for through him the Lord had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease. ¹² 

2 Kings 12:1

12:1 (12:2) In Jehu’s seventh year Jehoash became king; he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. ¹³  His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

2 Kings 12:20

12:20 His servants conspired against him ¹⁴  and murdered Joash at Beth-Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla. ¹⁵ 

2 Kings 12:2

12:2 Throughout his lifetime Jehoash did what the Lord approved, ¹⁶  just as ¹⁷  Jehoiada the priest taught him.

2 Kings 22:1

Josiah Repents

22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹⁸  His mother ¹⁹  was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath.

2 Kings 1:1

Elijah Confronts the King and His Commanders

1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. ²⁰ 

2 Kings 1:1

Elijah Confronts the King and His Commanders

1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. ²¹ 

¹ tn Heb “and Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and [between] the king and [between] the people, to become a people for the Lord, and between the king and [between] the people.” The final words of the verse (“and between the king and [between] the people”) are probably accidentally repeated from earlier in the verse. They do not appear in the parallel account in 2 Chr 23:16. If retained, they probably point to an agreement governing how the king and people should relate to one another.

² sn The name Joahaz is an alternate form of Jehoahaz.

³ sn The referent here is Joash of Judah (see 12:21), not Joash of Israel, mentioned earlier in the verse.

⁴ tn The Hebrew text also has, “and said to them.” This is redundant in English and has not been translated.

⁵ tn Heb “ranks.”

⁶ tn Heb “for the priest had said, ‘Let her not be put to death in the house of the Lord.’”

⁷ tn Heb “stole.”

⁸ tn Heb “him and his nurse in an inner room of beds.” The verb is missing in the Hebrew text. The parallel passage in 2 Chr 22:11 has “and she put” at the beginning of the clause. M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 126) regard the Chronicles passage as an editorial attempt to clarify the difficulty of the original text. They prefer to take “him and his nurse” as objects of the verb “stole” and understand “in the bedroom” as the place where the royal descendants were executed. The phrase בַּחֲדַר הַמִּטּוֹת (bakhadar hammittot), “an inner room of beds,” is sometimes understood as referring to a bedroom (HALOT 293 s.v. חֶדֶר), though some prefer to see here a “room where the covers and cloths were kept for the beds (HALOT 573 s.v. מִטָּת). In either case, it may have been a temporary hideout, for v. 3 indicates that the child hid in the temple for six years.

⁹ tn Heb “and they hid him from Athaliah and he was not put to death.” The subject of the plural verb (“they hid”) is probably indefinite.

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¹¹ tn Heb “was a great man before his master and lifted up with respect to the face.”

¹² tn For a discussion of מְצֹרָע (mÿtsora’), traditionally translated “leprous,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 63. Naaman probably had a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy/Hansen’s disease.

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¹⁴ tn Heb “rose up and conspired [with] a conspiracy.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “Beth Millo which goes down [toward] Silla.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and Jehoash did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord all his days.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “that which.” Jehoiada taught the king the Lord’s will.

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¹⁹ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

²⁰ sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22.

²¹ sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22.