2 Kings 3:27

3:27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel,¹ so they broke off the attack² and returned to their homeland.

2 Kings 6:30

6:30 When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.³

2 Kings 7:17

7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man⁴ at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate.⁵ This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him.⁶

2 Kings 10:5

10:5 So the palace supervisor,⁷ the city commissioner,⁸ the leaders,⁹ and the guardians sent this message to Jehu, “We are your subjects!¹⁰ Whatever you say, we will do. We will not make anyone king. Do what you consider proper.”¹¹

2 Kings 14:6

14:6 But he did not execute the sons of the assassins. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses,¹² “Fathers must not be put to death for what their sons do,¹³ and sons must not be put to death for what their fathers do.¹⁴ A man must be put to death only for his own sin.”¹⁵

2 Kings 15:20

15:20 Menahem got this silver by taxing all the wealthy men in Israel; he took fifty shekels of silver from each one of them and paid it to the king of Assyria.¹⁶ Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.

2 Kings 18:21

18:21 Now look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If a man leans for support on it, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him.

2 Kings 18:27

18:27 But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you.¹⁷ His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.”¹⁸

2 Kings 20:6

20:6 I will add fifteen years to your life and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.”’”¹⁹

2 Kings 21:13

21:13 I will destroy Jerusalem the same way I did Samaria²⁰ and the dynasty of Ahab.²¹ I will wipe Jerusalem clean, just as one wipes a plate on both sides.²²

2 Kings 22:20

22:20 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace.²³ You will not have to witness²⁴ all the disaster I will bring on this place.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.

2 Kings 23:29

23:29 During Josiah’s reign Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt marched toward²⁵ the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to fight him, but Necho²⁶ killed him at Megiddo²⁷ when he saw him.

2 Kings 25:4

25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls,²⁸ and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night.²⁹ They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden.³⁰ (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley.³¹

2 Kings 25:17

25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet³² high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet³³ high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

¹tn Heb “there was great anger against Israel.”

²tn Heb “they departed from him.”

³tn Heb “the people saw, and look, [there was] sackcloth against his skin underneath.”

⁵tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”

⁶tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”

⁷tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”

⁷tn Heb “the one who was over the house.”

⁸tn Heb “the one who was over the city.”

⁹tn Or “elders.”

¹⁰tn Heb “servants.”

¹¹tn Heb “Do what is good in your eyes.”

⁹tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded, saying.”

¹⁰tn Heb “on account of sons.”

¹¹tn Heb “on account of fathers.”

¹²sn This law is recorded in Deut 24:16.

¹¹tn Heb “and Menahem brought out the silver over Israel, over the prominent men of means, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver for each man.”

¹³tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.

¹⁴tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”

¹⁵tn Heb “for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.”

¹⁷map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

¹⁸tn Heb “I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab.” The measuring line and plumb line are normally used in building a structure, not tearing it down. But here they are used ironically as metaphors of judgment, emphasizing that he will give careful attention to the task of judgment.

¹⁹tn Heb “just as one wipes a plate, wiping and turning [it] on its face.” The word picture emphasizes how thoroughly the Lord will judge the city.

¹⁹tn Heb “Therefore, look, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”

²⁰tn Heb “your eyes will not see.”

²¹tn Heb “went up to.” The idiom עַל…עָלָה (’alah …’al) can sometimes mean “go up against,” but here it refers to Necho’s attempt to aid the Assyrians in their struggle with the Babylonians.

²²tn Heb “he”; the referent (Necho) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²³map For location see Map1-D4; Map2-C1; Map4-C2; Map5-F2; Map7-B1.

²³tn Heb “the city was breached.”

²⁴tn The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense.

²⁵sn The king’s garden is mentioned again in Neh 3:15 in conjunction with the pool of Siloam and the stairs that go down from the city of David. This would have been in the southern part of the city near the Tyropean Valley which agrees with the reference to the “two walls” which were probably the walls on the eastern and western hills.

²⁶sn Heb “toward the Arabah.” The Arabah was the rift valley north and south of the Dead Sea. Here the intention was undoubtedly to escape across the Jordan to Moab or Ammon. It appears from Jer 40:14; 41:15 that the Ammonites were known to harbor fugitives from the Babylonians.

²⁵tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

²⁶tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”