2 Kings 9:28

9:28 His servants took his body ¹  back to Jerusalem ²  and buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David.

2 Kings 25:6

25:6 They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, ³  where he ⁴  passed sentence on him.

2 Kings 25:28

25:28 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than ⁵  the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

¹ tn Heb “drove him.”

² map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

³ sn Riblah was a strategic town on the Orontes River in Syria. It was at a crossing of the major roads between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Pharaoh Necho had earlier received Jehoahaz there and put him in chains (2 Kgs 23:33) prior to taking him captive to Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar had set up his base camp for conducting his campaigns against the Palestinian states there and was now sitting in judgment on prisoners brought to him.

⁴ tn The Hebrew text has the plural form of the verb, but the parallel passage in Jer 52:9 has the singular.

⁵ tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of.”