2 Kings 12:2

12:2 Throughout his lifetime Jehoash did what the Lord approved, 1  just as 2  Jehoiada the priest taught him.

2 Kings 12:1

12:1 (12:2) In Jehu’s seventh year Jehoash became king; he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. 3  His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

2 Kings 11:4

11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned 4  the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians 5  and the royal bodyguard. 6  He met with them 7  in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement 8  with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.

2 Kings 15:3

15:3 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Amaziah had done. 9 

2 Kings 15:2

15:2 He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. 10  His mother’s name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25:2-3

25:2 The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. 25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month 11  the famine in the city was so severe the residents 12  had no food.

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

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

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

4 tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”

5 sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.

6 tn Heb “the runners.”

7 tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”

8 tn Or “covenant.”

9 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Amaziah his father had done.”

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

11 tn The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.

12 tn Heb “the people of the land.”