14:5 When he had secured control of the kingdom, 1 he executed the servants who had assassinated his father. 2
24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, 5 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. 6 Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. 7
24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, 8 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. 9 Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. 10
25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh 11 day of the twelfth month, 12 King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 13 King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 14 from prison.
1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. 15
1 tn Heb “when the kingdom was secure in his hand.”
2 tn Heb “he struck down his servants, the ones who had struck down the king, his father.”
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 “the name of his mother.”
5 tn Heb “In his days.”
6 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.
7 tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”
8 tn Heb “In his days.”
9 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.
10 tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”
11 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
12 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561
13 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
14 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.
15 sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22.