2 Kings 8:24

8:24 Joram passed away ¹  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Ahaziah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 9:28

9:28 His servants took his body ²  back to Jerusalem ³  and buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David.

2 Kings 12:21

12:21 His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. ⁴  He was buried ⁵  with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 12:1

12:1 (12:2) In Jehu’s seventh year Jehoash became king; he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. ⁶  His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

2 Kings 2:10

2:10 Elijah ⁷  replied, “That’s a difficult request! ⁸  If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don’t, it will not happen.”

2 Kings 11:1-2

Athaliah is Eliminated

11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line. ⁹  11:2 So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked ¹⁰  him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. ¹¹  So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution. ¹² 

2 Kings 21:20

21:20 He did evil in the sight of ¹³  the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done.

2 Kings 1:1

Elijah Confronts the King and His Commanders

1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. ¹⁴ 

2 Kings 1:1

Elijah Confronts the King and His Commanders

1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

² tn Heb “drove him.”

³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁴ tn Heb “struck him down and he died.”

⁵ tn Heb “they buried him.”

⁶ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “You have made difficult [your] request.”

⁹ tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum) “arise,” is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.

¹⁰ tn Heb “stole.”

¹¹ tn Heb “him and his nurse in an inner room of beds.” The verb is missing in the Hebrew text. The parallel passage in 2 Chr 22:11 has “and she put” at the beginning of the clause. M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 126) regard the Chronicles passage as an editorial attempt to clarify the difficulty of the original text. They prefer to take “him and his nurse” as objects of the verb “stole” and understand “in the bedroom” as the place where the royal descendants were executed. The phrase בַּחֲדַר הַמִּטּוֹת (bakhadar hammittot), “an inner room of beds,” is sometimes understood as referring to a bedroom (HALOT 293 s.v. חֶדֶר), though some prefer to see here a “room where the covers and cloths were kept for the beds (HALOT 573 s.v. מִטָּת). In either case, it may have been a temporary hideout, for v. 3 indicates that the child hid in the temple for six years.

¹² tn Heb “and they hid him from Athaliah and he was not put to death.” The subject of the plural verb (“they hid”) is probably indefinite.

¹³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹⁴ sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22.

¹⁵ sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22.