2 Kings 18:20

18:20 Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. ¹  In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me?

2 Kings 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ²  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ³  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ⁴ 

2 Kings 24:20

24:20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence. ⁵  Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

¹ tn Heb “you say only a word of lips, counsel and might for battle.” Sennacherib’s message appears to be in broken Hebrew at this point. The phrase “word of lips” refers to mere or empty talk in Prov 14:23.

² tn Heb “In his days.”

³ 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.

⁴ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”

³ tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the Lord this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until he threw them out from upon his face.”