2 Kings 5:27

5:27 Therefore Naaman’s skin disease will afflict ¹  you and your descendants forever!” When Gehazi ²  went out from his presence, his skin was as white as snow. ³ 

2 Kings 15:19

15:19 Pul ⁴  king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid ⁵  him ⁶  a thousand talents ⁷  of silver to gain his support ⁸  and to solidify his control of the kingdom. ⁹ 

2 Kings 16:9

16:9 The king of Assyria responded favorably to his request; ¹⁰  he ¹¹  attacked Damascus and captured it. He deported the people ¹²  to Kir and executed Rezin.

2 Kings 17:20

17:20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated ¹³  them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.

2 Kings 18:15

18:15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver in ¹⁴  the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

2 Kings 19:8-9

19:8 When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning. ¹⁵  19:9 The king ¹⁶  heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. ¹⁷  He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

2 Kings 20:11

20:11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord ¹⁸  made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz. ¹⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “cling to.”

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Traditionally, “he went from before him, leprous like snow.” But see the note at 5:1, as well as M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 66.

⁴ sn Pul was a nickname of Tiglath-pileser III (cf. 15:29). See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 171-72.

⁵ tn Heb “gave.”

⁶ tn Heb “Pul.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 75,000 pounds of silver (cf. NCV “about seventy-four thousand pounds”); NLT “thirty-seven tons”; CEV “over thirty tons”; TEV “34,000 kilogrammes.”

⁸ tn Heb “so his hands would be with him.”

⁹ tn Heb “to keep hold of the kingdom in his hand.”

⁷ tn Heb “listened to him.”

⁸ tn Heb “the king of Assyria.”

⁹ tn Heb “it.”

¹⁰ tn Or “afflicted.”

¹³ tn Heb “that was found.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and the chief adviser returned and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁰ tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘Look, he has come out to fight with you.’”

²² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²³ tn Heb “on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.”