2 Kings 16:7-9

16:7 Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your dependent. ¹  March up and rescue me from the power ²  of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked ³  me.” 16:8 Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were ⁴  in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute ⁵  to the king of Assyria. 16:9 The king of Assyria responded favorably to his request; ⁶  he ⁷  attacked Damascus and captured it. He deported the people ⁸  to Kir and executed Rezin.

2 Kings 16:2

16:2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁹  He did not do what pleased the Lord his God, in contrast to his ancestor David. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 1:1

Elijah Confronts the King and His Commanders

1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 1:1

Elijah Confronts the King and His Commanders

1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. ¹² 

Hosea 5:13

5:13 When Ephraim saw ¹³  his sickness

and Judah saw his wound,

then Ephraim turned ¹⁴  to Assyria,

and begged ¹⁵  its great king ¹⁶  for help.

But he will not be able to heal you!

He cannot cure your wound! ¹⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “son.” Both terms (“servant” and “son”) reflect Ahaz’s subordinate position as Tiglath-pileser’s subject.

² tn Heb “hand, palm.”

³ tn Heb “who have arisen against.”

⁴ tn Heb “that was found.”

⁵ tn Or “bribe money.”

⁶ tn Heb “listened to him.”

⁷ tn Heb “the king of Assyria.”

⁸ tn Heb “it.”

⁹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord his God, like David his father.”

¹¹ sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22.

¹² sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22.

¹³ tn Hosea employs three preterites (vayyiqtol forms) in verse 13a-b to describe a past-time situation.

¹⁴ tn Heb “went to” (so NAB, NRSV, TEV); CEV “asked help from.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “sent to” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV).

¹⁶ tc The MT reads מֶלֶךְ יָרֵב (melekh yarev, “a contentious king”). This is translated as a proper name (“king Jareb”) by KJV, ASV, NASB. However, the stative adjective יָרֵב (“contentious”) is somewhat awkward. The words should be redivided as an archaic genitive-construct מַלְכִּי רָב (malki rav, “great king”; cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT) which preserves the old genitive hireq yod ending. This is the equivalent of the Assyrian royal epithet sarru rabbu (“the great king”). See also the tc note on the same phrase in 10:6.

¹⁷ tn Heb “your wound will not depart from you.”