2 Kings 3:4

3:4 Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder.¹ He would send as tribute² to the king of Israel 100,000 male lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.

2 Kings 7:15

7:15 So they tracked them³ as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste.⁴ The scouts⁵ went back and told the king.

2 Kings 9:12

9:12 But they said, “You’re lying! Tell us what he said.” So he told them what he had said. He also related how he had said,⁶ “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have designated you as king over Israel.’”

2 Kings 11:10

11:10 The priest gave to the officers of the units of hundreds King David’s spears and the shields that were kept in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 12:6

12:6 By the twenty-third year of King Jehoash’s reign the priests had still not repaired the damage to the temple.

2 Kings 13:16

13:16 Then Elisha⁷ told the king of Israel, “Aim the bow.”⁸ He did so,⁹ and Elisha placed his hands on the king’s hands.

2 Kings 13:18

13:18 Then Elisha¹⁰ said, “Take the arrows,” and he did so.¹¹ He told the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” He struck the ground three times and stopped.

2 Kings 16:8

16:8 Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were¹² in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute¹³ to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 18:13

Sennacherib Invades Judah

18:13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

2 Kings 18:16

18:16 At that time King Hezekiah of Judah stripped the metal overlays from the doors of the Lord’s temple and from the posts which he had plated¹⁴ and gave them to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 22:3

22:3 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, the king sent the scribe Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple with these orders:¹⁵

2 Kings 22:10

22:10 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

2 Kings 23:10

23:10 The king¹⁶ ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech.¹⁷

¹tn For a discussion of the meaning of term (נֹקֵד, noqed), see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 43.

²tn The vav + perfect here indicates customary action contemporary with the situation described in the preceding main clause. See IBHS 533-34 §32.2.3e.

³tn Heb “went after.”

⁴tn Heb “and look, all the road was full of clothes and equipment that Syria had thrown away in their haste.”

⁵tn Or “messengers.”

⁵tn Heb “So he said, ‘Like this and like this he said to me, saying.’” The words “like this and like this” are probably not a direct quote of Jehu’s words to his colleagues. Rather this is the narrator’s way of avoiding repetition and indicating that Jehu repeated, or at least summarized, what the prophet had said to him.

⁷tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸tn Heb “Cause your hand to ride on the bow.”

⁹tn Heb “and he caused his hand to ride.”

⁹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰tn Heb “and he took [them].”

¹¹tn Heb “that was found.”

¹²tn Or “bribe money.”

¹³tn Heb “At that time Hezekiah stripped the doors of the Lord’s temple, and the posts which Hezekiah king of Judah had plated.”

¹⁵tn Heb “with these orders, saying.”

¹⁷tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁸sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.