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 23:2-3

23:2 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud² all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple. 23:3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed³ the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow⁴ the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being,⁵ by carrying out the terms⁶ of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant.⁷

2 Kings 23:2

2 Kings 15:12-15

15:12 His assassination brought to fulfillment the Lord’s word to Jehu,⁹ “Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.”¹⁰ That is exactly what happened.¹¹

15:13 Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of King Uzziah’s¹² reign over Judah. He reigned for one month¹³ in Samaria. 15:14 Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to¹⁴ Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh.¹⁵ He killed him and took his place as king. 15:15 The rest of the events of Shallum’s reign, including the conspiracy he organized, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.¹⁶

2 Kings 23:16

23:16 When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought;¹⁷ he burned them on the altar and defiled it. This fulfilled the Lord’s announcement made by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. King Josiah¹⁸ turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.¹⁹

2 Kings 1:10

1:10 Elijah replied to the captain,²⁰ “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down²¹ from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Kings 1:1

Elijah Confronts the King and His Commanders

1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel.²²

Nehemiah 9:38--10:27

The People Pledge to be Faithful

9:38 (10:1)²³ “Because of all of this we are entering into a binding covenant²⁴ in written form;²⁵ our leaders, our Levites, and our priests have affixed their names²⁶ on the sealed document.”

10:1 On the sealed documents were the following names:²⁷

Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, along with Zedekiah,

10:2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

10:3 Pashhur, Amariah, Malkijah,

10:4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,

10:5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

10:6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,

10:7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

10:8 Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.

10:9 The Levites were as follows:

Jeshua²⁸ son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel.

10:10 Their colleagues²⁹ were as follows:

Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

10:11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,

10:12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

10:13 Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu.

10:14 The leaders³⁰ of the people were as follows:

Parosh, Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,

10:15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

10:16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

10:17 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

10:18 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,

10:19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,

10:20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

10:21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,

10:22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,

10:23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,

10:24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,

10:25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,

10:26 Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,

10:27 Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.

¹tn 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.

²tn Heb “read in their ears.”

³tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made, agreed to.”

⁴tn Heb “walk after.”

⁵tn Or “soul.”

⁶tn Heb “words.”

⁷tn Heb “stood in the covenant.”

⁸tn Heb “read in their ears.”

⁹tn Heb “It was the word of the Lord which he spoke to Jehu, saying.”

¹⁰tn “sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.”

¹¹tn Heb “and it was so.”

¹²sn Azariah was also known by the name Uzziah.

¹³tn Heb “a month of days.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and came to.”

¹⁵tn Heb “went up from Tirzah and arrived in Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria.”

¹⁶tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he conspired, look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.”

¹⁷tn Heb “and he sent and took the bones from the tombs.”

¹⁸tn Heb “the king”; this has been specified as “King Josiah” in the translation for clarity (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).

¹⁹tc The MT is much shorter than this. It reads, “according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.” The LXX has a much longer text at this point. It reads: “[which was proclaimed by the man of God] while Jeroboam stood by the altar at a celebration. Then he turned and saw the grave of the man of God [who proclaimed these words].” The extra material attested in the LXX was probably accidentally omitted in the Hebrew tradition when a scribe’s eye jumped from the first occurrence of the phrase “man of God” (which appears right before the extra material) and the second occurrence of the phrase (which appears at the end of the extra material).

²⁰tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”

²¹tn Wordplay contributes to the irony here. The king tells Elijah to “come down” (Hebrew יָרַד, yarad), but Elijah calls fire down (יָרַד) on the arrogant king’s officer.

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

²³sn Beginning with 9:38, the verse numbers through 10:39 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 9:38 ET = 10:1 HT, 10:1 ET = 10:2 HT, 10:2 ET = 10:3 HT, etc., through 10:39 ET = 10:40 HT. Beginning with 11:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

²⁴tn Heb “we are cutting.”

²⁵tn Heb “and writing.”

²⁶tn Heb “our leaders, our Levites, and our priests on the sealed document.” The Hebrew text is elliptical here; the words “have affixed their names” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons. Cf. v. 2.

²⁷tn The words “were the following names” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation for clarity. Cf. vv. 9, 10, 14.

²⁸tc With many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and the ancient versions the translation reads יְשׁוּעַ (yÿshua’, “Jeshua”) rather than the reading וְיֵשׁוּעַ (vÿyeshua’, “and Jeshua”) of BHS.

²⁹tn Heb “brothers” (also in v. 30).

³⁰tn Heb “heads”; ASV “chiefs.”