2 Kings 17:20

17:20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated ¹  them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.

2 Kings 5:27

5:27 Therefore Naaman’s skin disease will afflict ²  you and your descendants forever!” When Gehazi ³  went out from his presence, his skin was as white as snow. ⁴ 

2 Kings 20:18

20:18 ‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father ⁵  will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

2 Kings 8:19

8:19 But the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah. He preserved Judah for the sake of ⁶  his servant David to whom he had promised a perpetual dynasty. ⁷ 

2 Kings 15:12

15:12 His assassination brought to fulfillment the Lord’s word to Jehu, ⁸  “Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” ⁹  That is exactly what happened. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 17:34

17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship ¹¹  the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave ¹²  the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

2 Kings 10:30

10:30 The Lord said to Jehu, “You have done well. You have accomplished my will and carried out my wishes with regard to Ahab’s dynasty. Therefore four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” ¹³ 

2 Kings 11:1

Athaliah is Eliminated

11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line. ¹⁴ 

2 Kings 17:35

17:35 The Lord made an agreement ¹⁵  with them ¹⁶  and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them.

2 Kings 17:41

17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

2 Kings 11:2

11:2 So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked ¹⁷  him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. ¹⁸  So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution. ¹⁹ 

¹ tn Or “afflicted.”

² tn Heb “cling to.”

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Traditionally, “he went from before him, leprous like snow.” But see the note at 5:1, as well as M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 66.

³ tn Heb “Some of your sons, who go out from you, whom you father.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew has only one sentence, “and the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah for the sake of.” The translation divides it for the sake of clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “just as he had promised to give him and his sons a lamp all the days.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty; this is reflected in the translation.

⁵ tn Heb “It was the word of the Lord which he spoke to Jehu, saying.”

⁶ tn “sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.”

⁷ tn Heb “and it was so.”

⁶ tn Heb “fear.”

⁷ tn Heb “commanded.”

⁷ tn Heb “Because you have done well by doing what is proper in my eyes – according to all which was in my heart you have done to the house of Ahab – sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.” In the Hebrew text the Lord’s statement is one long sentence (with a parenthesis). The translation above divides it into shorter sentences for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum) “arise,” is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.

⁹ tn Or “covenant.”

¹⁰ sn That is, the descendants of Jacob/Israel (see v. 35b).

¹⁰ tn Heb “stole.”

¹¹ tn Heb “him and his nurse in an inner room of beds.” The verb is missing in the Hebrew text. The parallel passage in 2 Chr 22:11 has “and she put” at the beginning of the clause. M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 126) regard the Chronicles passage as an editorial attempt to clarify the difficulty of the original text. They prefer to take “him and his nurse” as objects of the verb “stole” and understand “in the bedroom” as the place where the royal descendants were executed. The phrase בַּחֲדַר הַמִּטּוֹת (bakhadar hammittot), “an inner room of beds,” is sometimes understood as referring to a bedroom (HALOT 293 s.v. חֶדֶר), though some prefer to see here a “room where the covers and cloths were kept for the beds (HALOT 573 s.v. מִטָּת). In either case, it may have been a temporary hideout, for v. 3 indicates that the child hid in the temple for six years.

¹² tn Heb “and they hid him from Athaliah and he was not put to death.” The subject of the plural verb (“they hid”) is probably indefinite.