2 Kings 8:17

8:17 He was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem. ¹ 

2 Kings 13:10

Jehoash’s Reign over Israel

13:10 In the thirty-seventh year of King Joash’s reign over Judah, Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria ²  for sixteen years.

2 Kings 15:8

Zechariah’s Reign over Israel

15:8 In the thirty-eighth year of King Azariah’s reign over Judah, Jeroboam’s son Zechariah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria ³  for six months.

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. ⁴  His mother ⁵  was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath.

2 Kings 15:13

15:13 Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of King Uzziah’s ⁶  reign over Judah. He reigned for one month ⁷  in Samaria.

2 Kings 15:17

Menahem’s Reign over Israel

15:17 In the thirty-ninth year of King Azariah’s reign over Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel. He reigned for twelve years in Samaria. ⁸ 

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. ⁹  If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” ¹⁰  So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents ¹¹  of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ¹²  day of the twelfth month, ¹³  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ¹⁴  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ¹⁵  from prison.

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⁵ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

⁵ sn Azariah was also known by the name Uzziah.

⁶ tn Heb “a month of days.”

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⁷ tn Or “I have done wrong.”

⁸ tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

⁹ 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.

⁸ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

⁹ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

¹⁰ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

¹¹ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.