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 4 up against Samaria 5 and besieged it.
25:8 On the seventh 6 day of the fifth month, 7 in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard 8 who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. 9
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.
1 tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”
2 sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.
3 tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”
4 tn Heb “went” (also in v. 13).
5 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
7 tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”
8 sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586
9 tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.
10 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
10 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
11 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561
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.