2 Kings 3:6

3:6 At that time King Jehoram left Samaria and assembled all Israel for war.

2 Kings 5:2

5:2 Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman’s wife.

2 Kings 5:4

5:4 Naaman ¹  went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said.

2 Kings 6:21

6:21 When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “Should I strike them down, ²  my master?” ³ 

2 Kings 9:8

9:8 Ahab’s entire family will die. I ⁴  will cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. ⁵ 

2 Kings 10:36

10:36 Jehu reigned over Israel for twenty-eight years in Samaria.

2 Kings 13:22

13:22 Now King Hazael of Syria oppressed Israel throughout Jehoahaz’s reign. ⁶ 

2 Kings 14:29

14:29 Jeroboam passed away ⁷  and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. ⁸  His son Zechariah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 15:11

15:11 The rest of the events of Zechariah’s reign are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ⁹ 

2 Kings 17:2

17:2 He did evil in the sight of ¹⁰  the Lord, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.

2 Kings 17:22

17:22 The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and did not repudiate ¹¹  them.

2 Kings 21:2

21:2 He did evil in the sight of ¹²  the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations ¹³  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Heb “Should I strike them down? I will strike them down.” In the Hebrew text the first person imperfect form is repeated; the first form has the interrogative he prefixed to it; the second does not. It is likely that the second form should be omitted as dittographic or that the first should be emended to an infinitive absolute.

² tn Heb “my father.” The king addresses the prophet in this way to indicate his respect. See 2 Kgs 2:12.

¹ tc The LXX has the second person, “you.”

² tn Heb “and I will cut off from Ahab those who urinate against a wall, [including both those who are] restrained and let free [or, ‘abandoned’] in Israel.” On the phrase וְעָצוּר וְעָזוּב (vÿ’atsur vÿ’azur, translated here “weak and incapacitated”) see the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.

¹ tn Heb “all the days of Jehoahaz.”

¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

² tn The MT has simply “with the kings of Israel,” which appears to stand in apposition to the immediately preceding “with his fathers.” But it is likely that the words “and he was buried in Samaria” have been accidentally omitted from the text. See 13:13 and 14:16.

¹ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam, look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.”

¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹ tn Heb “turn away from.”

¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

² tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”