2 Kings 4:20

4:20 So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap ¹  until noon and then died.

2 Kings 6:16

6:16 He replied, “Don’t be afraid, for our side outnumbers them.” ² 

2 Kings 10:15

10:15 When he left there, he met ³  Jehonadab, son of Rekab, who had been looking for him. ⁴  Jehu greeted him and asked, ⁵  “Are you as committed to me as I am to you?” ⁶  Jehonadab answered, “I am!” Jehu replied, “If so, give me your hand.” ⁷  So he offered his hand and Jehu ⁸  pulled him up into the chariot.

2 Kings 11:3

11:3 He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple ⁹  for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

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 13:20

13:20 Elisha died and was buried. ¹⁰  Moabite raiding parties invaded ¹¹  the land at the beginning of the year. ¹² 

2 Kings 14:16

14:16 Jehoash passed away ¹³  and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. His son Jeroboam replaced him as king.)

2 Kings 16:20

16:20 Ahaz passed away ¹⁴  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 20:10

20:10 Hezekiah answered, “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps, but not for it ¹⁵  to go back ten steps.”

¹ tn Heb “knees.”

² tn Heb “for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

³ tn Heb “found.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he went from there and found Jehonadab son of Rekab [who was coming] to meet him.”

⁵ tn Heb “and he blessed him and said to him.”

⁶ tn Heb “Is there with your heart [what is] right, as my heart [is] with your heart?”

⁷ tc Heb “Jehonadab said, ‘There is and there is. Give your hand.’” If the text is allowed to stand, there are two possible ways to understand the syntax of וָיֵשׁ (vayesh), “and there is”: (1) The repetition of יֵשׁ (yesh, “there is and there is”) could be taken as emphatic, “indeed I am.” In this case, the entire statement could be taken as Jehonadab’s words or one could understand the words “give your hand” as Jehu’s. In the latter case the change in speakers is unmarked. (2) וָיֵשׁ begins Jehu’s response and has a conditional force, “if you are.” In this case, the transition in speakers is unmarked. However, it is possible that וַיֹּאמֶר (vayyo’mer), “and he said,” or וַיֹּאמֶר יֵהוּא (vayyo’mer yehu), “and Jehu said,” originally appeared between יֵשׁ and וָיֵשׁ and has accidentally dropped from the text by homoioarcton (note that both the proposed וַיֹּאמֶר and וָיֵשׁ begin with vav, ו). The present translation assumes such a textual reconstruction; it is supported by the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “and he was with her [in] the house of the Lord hiding.”

⁵ tn Heb “and they buried him.”

⁶ tn Heb “entered.”

⁷ tc The MT reading בָּא שָׁנָה (ba’ shanah), “it came, year,” should probably be emended to בְּבָּא הַשָּׁנָה (bÿba’ hashanah), “at the coming [i.e., ‘beginning’] of the year.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 148.

⁶ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁷ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁸ tn Heb “the shadow.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.