2 Kings 17:4

17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. Hoshea had sent messengers to King So of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.

2 Kings 18:9

18:9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched up against Samaria and besieged it.

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh 10  day of the twelfth month, 11  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 12  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 13  from prison.


tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”

sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.

tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”

tn Heb “went” (also in v. 13).

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tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

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10 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

11 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

12 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

13 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.