16:1 In the seventeenth year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah, Jotham’s son Ahaz became king over Judah.
3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here? 2 Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”
1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. 4
1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. 5
1 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
2 tn Or “What do we have in common?” The text reads literally, “What to me and to you?”
3 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
4 sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22.
5 sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22.
6 tc ᾿Αμώς (Amws) is the reading found in the earliest and best witnesses (א B C [Dluc] γ δ θ Ë1 33 pc it sa bo), and as such is most likely original, but this is a variant spelling of the name ᾿Αμών (Amwn). The translation uses the more well-known spelling “Amon” found in the Hebrew MT and the majority of LXX