2 Kings 3:7
3:7 He sent
1 this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you fight with me against Moab?” Jehoshaphat
2 replied, “I will join you in the campaign; my army and horses are at your disposal.”
3
2 Kings 9:15
9:15 But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians
4 when he fought against King Hazael of Syria.
5 Jehu told his supporters,
6 “If you really want me to be king,
7 then don’t let anyone escape from the city to go and warn Jezreel.”
2 Kings 9:1
Jehu Becomes King
9:1 Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild 8 and told him, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container 9 of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.
2 Kings 22:4
22:4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down
10 the silver that has been brought by the people to the
Lord’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.
2 Kings 22:2
22:2 He did what the
Lord approved
11 and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps;
12 he did not deviate to the right or the left.
2 Kings 18:2-3
18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem.
13 His mother
14 was Abi,
15 the daughter of Zechariah.
18:3 He did what the
Lord approved, just as his ancestor David had done.
16
2 Kings 18:31
18:31 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me.
17 Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
2 Kings 19:2
19:2 He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests,
18 clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:
2 Kings 22:5
22:5 Have them hand it over to the construction foremen
19 assigned to the
Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it,
20
1 tn Heb “went and sent.”
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoshaphat) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “I will go up – like me, like you; like my people, like your people; like my horses; like your horses.”
4 tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”
5 sn See 2 Kgs 8:28-29a.
6 tn The words “his supporters” are added for clarification.
7 tn Heb “If this is your desire.” נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) refers here to the seat of the emotions and will. For other examples of this use of the word, see BDB 660-61 s.v.
8 tn Heb “one of the sons of the prophets.”
9 tn Or “flask.”
10 tc The MT has וְיַתֵּם (vÿyattem), “and let them add up” (Hiphil of תָּמָם [tammam], “be complete”), but the appearance of הִתִּיכוּ (hitikhu), “they melted down” (Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh], “pour out”) in v. 9 suggests that the verb form should be emended to וְיַתֵּךְ (vÿyattekh), “and let him melt down” (a Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh]). For a discussion of this and other options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 281.
11 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”
12 tn Heb “and walked in all the way of David his father.”
13 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
14 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
15 tn The parallel passage in 2 Chr 29:1 has “Abijah.”
16 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which David his father had done.”
17 tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”
18 tn Heb “elders of the priests.”
19 tn Heb “doers of the work.”
20 tn Heb “and let them give it to the doers of the work who are in the house of the Lord to repair the damages to the house.”