2 Kings 17:5

17:5 The king of Assyria marched through ¹  the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.

2 Kings 13:18

13:18 Then Elisha ²  said, “Take the arrows,” and he did so. ³  He told the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” He struck the ground three times and stopped.

2 Kings 18:1

Hezekiah Becomes King of Judah

18:1 In the third year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Ahaz’s son Hezekiah became king over Judah.

2 Kings 18:10

18:10 After three years he captured it (in the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign); in the ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign over Israel Samaria was captured.

2 Kings 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ⁴  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ⁵  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ⁶ 

2 Kings 13:19

13:19 The prophet ⁷  got angry at him and said, “If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! ⁸  But now, you will defeat Syria only three times.”

2 Kings 13:25

13:25 Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash took back from ⁹  Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities.

2 Kings 25:17

25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet ¹⁰  high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet ¹¹  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

2 Kings 18:14

18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty. ¹²  If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” ¹³  So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents ¹⁴  of silver and thirty talents of gold.

¹ tn Heb “went up against.”

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “and he took [them].”

³ tn Heb “In his days.”

⁴ tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.

⁵ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”

⁴ tn Heb “man of God.”

⁵ tn Heb “[It was necessary] to strike five or six times, then you would strike down Syria until destruction.” On the syntax of the infinitive construct, see GKC 349 §114.k.

⁵ tn Heb “from the hand of.”

⁶ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

⁷ tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”

⁷ tn Or “I have done wrong.”

⁸ tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

⁹ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.