2 Kings 6:5

6:5 As one of them was felling a log, the ax head ¹  dropped into the water. He shouted, “Oh no, ²  my master! It was borrowed!”

2 Kings 17:28

17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. ³  He taught them how to worship ⁴  the Lord.

2 Kings 19:22

19:22 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at?

At whom have you shouted, ⁵ 

and looked so arrogantly? ⁶ 

At the Holy One of Israel! ⁷ 

2 Kings 22:1

Josiah Repents

22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ⁸  His mother ⁹  was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath.

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. ¹⁰  His mother ¹¹  was Hamutal, ¹²  the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

¹ tn Heb “iron.”

² tn Or “ah.”

³ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁴ tn Heb “fear.”

⁵ tn Heb “have you raised a voice.”

⁶ tn Heb “and lifted your eyes on high?”

⁷ sn This divine title pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.

⁷ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁸ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

⁹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

¹¹ tc Some textual witnesses support the consonantal text (Kethib) in reading “Hamital.”