2 Kings 6:25

6:25 Samaria’s food supply ran out. ¹  They laid siege to it so long that ²  a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver ³  and a quarter of a kab ⁴  of dove’s droppings ⁵  for five shekels of silver. ⁶ 

2 Kings 8:16

Jehoram’s Reign over Judah

8:16 In the fifth year of the reign of Israel’s King Joram, son of Ahab, Jehoshaphat’s son Jehoram became king over Judah. ⁷ 

2 Kings 14:2

14:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ⁸  His mother ⁹  was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 14:17

14:17 King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz of Israel.

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. ¹⁰  His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

2 Kings 18:2

18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ¹¹  His mother ¹²  was Abi, ¹³  the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Kings 21:1

Manasseh’s Reign over Judah

21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. ¹⁴  His mother ¹⁵  was Hephzibah.

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. ¹⁶  His mother was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah.

2 Kings 7:13

7:13 One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!) ¹⁷  Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.” ¹⁸ 

2 Kings 13:19

13:19 The prophet ¹⁹  got angry at him and said, “If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! ²⁰  But now, you will defeat Syria only three times.”

2 Kings 14:23

Jeroboam II’s Reign over Israel

14:23 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Judah’s King Amaziah, son of Joash, Jeroboam son of Joash became king over Israel. He reigned for forty-one years in Samaria. ²¹ 

2 Kings 19:35

19:35 That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they ²²  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. ²³ 

2 Kings 20:6

20:6 I will add fifteen years to your life and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.”’” ²⁴ 

2 Kings 25:19

25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five ²⁵  of the king’s advisers ²⁶  who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens ²⁷  for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

¹ tn Heb “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”

² tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”

³ tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

⁴ sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately one quart.

⁵ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) reads, “dove dung” (חֲרֵייוֹנִים, khareyonim), while the marginal reading (Qere) has “discharge” (דִּבְיוֹנִים, divyonim). Based on evidence from Akkadian, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 79) suggest that “dove’s dung” was a popular name for the inedible husks of seeds.

⁶ tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

⁷ tc The Hebrew text reads, “and in the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, and [or, ‘while’?] Jehoshaphat [was?] king of Judah, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah became king.” The first reference to “Jehoshaphat king of Judah” is probably due to a scribe accidentally copying the phrase from the later in the verse. If the Hebrew text is retained, the verse probably refers to the beginning of a coregency between Jehoshaphat and Jehoram.

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¹⁴ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

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²⁶ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

²⁷ tn The parallel passage in 2 Chr 29:1 has “Abijah.”

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³² tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

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⁴³ tn Heb “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.” The MT is dittographic here; the words “that remain in it. Look they are like all the people of Israel” have been accidentally repeated. The original text read, “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.”

⁴⁴ tn Heb “and let us send so we might see.”

⁴⁹ tn Heb “man of God.”

⁵⁰ tn Heb “[It was necessary] to strike five or six times, then you would strike down Syria until destruction.” On the syntax of the infinitive construct, see GKC 349 §114.k.

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⁶¹ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

⁶² tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies.”

⁶⁷ tn Heb “for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.”

⁷³ tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”

⁷⁴ tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”

⁷⁵ tn Heb “the people of the land.”