2 Kings 7:12

7:12 The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, ¹  “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”

2 Kings 8:29

8:29 King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ²  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. King Ahaziah son of Jehoram of Judah went down to visit ³  Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was ill.

2 Kings 10:19

10:19 So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. ⁴  None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of them who fail to appear will lose their lives.” But Jehu was tricking them ⁵  so he could destroy the servants of Baal.

2 Kings 12:18

12:18 King Jehoash of Judah collected all the sacred items that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, as well as his own sacred items and all the gold that could be found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He sent it all ⁶  to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew ⁷  from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 18:14

18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty. ⁸  If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” ⁹  So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents ¹⁰  of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 18:17

18:17 The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser ¹¹  from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, ¹²  along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went ¹³  and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth. ¹⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 13).

² tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

³ tn Heb “to see.”

³ tn Heb “and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests summon to me.”

⁴ tn Heb “acted with deception [or, ‘trickery’].”

⁴ tn The object (“it all”) is supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁵ tn Heb “went up.”

⁵ tn Or “I have done wrong.”

⁶ tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

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 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.

⁶ sn For a discussion of these titles see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 229-30.

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 “and they went up and came.”

⁹ tn Heb “the field of the washer.”