2 Kings 11:21

Joash’s Reign over Judah

11:21 (12:1) ¹  Jehoash ²  was seven years old when he began to reign.

2 Kings 8:17

8:17 He was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem. ³ 

2 Kings 11:3

11:3 He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple ⁴  for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

2 Kings 17:5

17:5 The king of Assyria marched through ⁵  the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.

2 Kings 8:2-3

8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said. ⁶  She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years. 8:3 After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field. ⁷ 

2 Kings 9:32

9:32 He looked up at the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three ⁸  eunuchs looked down at him.

2 Kings 15:17

Menahem’s Reign over Israel

15:17 In the thirty-ninth year of King Azariah’s reign over Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel. He reigned for twelve years in Samaria. ⁹ 

2 Kings 17:1

Hoshea’s Reign over Israel

17:1 In the twelfth year of King Ahaz’s reign over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria ¹⁰  for nine years.

2 Kings 18:10

18:10 After three years he captured it (in the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign); in the ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign over Israel Samaria was captured.

2 Kings 21:19

Amon’s Reign over Judah

21:19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem. ¹¹  His mother ¹²  was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz, from Jotbah.

2 Kings 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ¹³  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ¹⁴  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ¹⁵ 

2 Kings 25:16

25:16 The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the Lord’s temple – including the two pillars, the big bronze basin called “The Sea,” the twelve bronze bulls under “The Sea,” ¹⁶  and the movable stands – was too heavy to be weighed.

2 Kings 2:9

2:9 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “What can I do for you, ¹⁷  before I am taken away from you?” Elisha answered, “May I receive a double portion of the prophetic spirit that energizes you.” ¹⁸ 

2 Kings 8:1

Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman

8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, ¹⁹  for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

2 Kings 17:16

17:16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, ²⁰  and worshiped ²¹  Baal.

¹ sn Beginning with 11:21, the verse numbers through 12:21 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 11:21 ET = 12:1 HT, 12:1 ET = 12:2 HT, 12:2 ET = 12:3 HT, etc., through 12:21 ET = 12:22 HT. With 13:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

² tn Jehoash is an alternate name for Joash (see 11:2).

³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁵ tn Heb “and he was with her [in] the house of the Lord hiding.”

⁷ tn Heb “went up against.”

⁹ tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”

¹³ tn Heb “two, three.” The narrator may be intentionally vague or uncertain here, or the two numbers may represent alternate traditions.

¹⁵ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

¹⁷ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

¹⁹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

²⁰ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

²¹ tn Heb “In his days.”

²² tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.

²³ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”

²³ tc The MT lacks “the twelve bronze bulls under ‘the Sea,’” but these words have probably been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton. The scribe’s eye may have jumped from the וְהָ (vÿha-) on וְהַבָּקָר (vÿhabbaqar), “and the bulls,” to the וְהָ on וְהַמְּכֹנוֹת (vÿhammÿkhonot), “and the movable stands,” causing him to leave out the intervening words. See the parallel passage in Jer 52:20.

²⁵ tn Heb “Ask! What can I do for you….?”

²⁶ tn Heb “May a double portion of your spirit come to me.”

²⁷ tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”

²⁹ tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

³⁰ tn Or “served.”