2 Kings 4:42

Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People

4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet ¹  – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. ²  Elisha ³  said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”

2 Kings 8:26

8:26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. ⁴  His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter ⁵  of King Omri of Israel.

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 15:1

Azariah’s Reign over Judah

15:1 In the twenty-seventh year of King Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Amaziah’s son Azariah became king over Judah.

2 Kings 15:27

Pekah’s Reign over Israel

15:27 In the fifty-second year of King Azariah’s reign over Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria ⁶  for twenty years.

2 Kings 15:30

15:30 Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He assassinated him ⁷  and took his place as king, in the twentieth year of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah.

2 Kings 15:33

15:33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁸  His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

2 Kings 16:2

16:2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁹  He did not do what pleased the Lord his God, in contrast to his ancestor David. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 21:19

Amon’s Reign over Judah

21:19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem. ¹¹  His mother ¹²  was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz, from Jotbah.

2 Kings 23:31

Jehoahaz’s Reign over Judah

23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. ¹³  His mother ¹⁴  was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

2 Kings 23:36

Jehoiakim’s Reign over Judah

23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹⁵  His mother was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah.

2 Kings 24:18

Zedekiah’s Reign over Judah

24:18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹⁶  His mother ¹⁷  was Hamutal, ¹⁸  the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

¹ tn Heb “man of God.”

² tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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⁵ tn Hebrew בַּת (bat), “daughter,” can refer, as here to a granddaughter. See HALOT 166 s.v. בַּת.

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¹⁰ tn Heb “and struck him down and killed him.”

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¹⁷ tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord his God, like David his father.”

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²⁰ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

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²³ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

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²⁹ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

³⁰ tc Some textual witnesses support the consonantal text (Kethib) in reading “Hamital.”