2 Kings 9:34

9:34 He went inside and had a meal. ¹  Then he said, “Dispose of this accursed woman’s corpse. Bury her, for after all, she was a king’s daughter.” ² 

2 Kings 15:33

15:33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ³  His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

2 Kings 18:2

18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ⁴  His mother ⁵  was Abi, ⁶  the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Kings 21:19

Amon’s Reign over Judah

21:19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem. ⁷  His mother ⁸  was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz, from Jotbah.

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. ⁹  His mother ¹⁰  was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath.

2 Kings 23:10

23:10 The king ¹¹  ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech. ¹² 

2 Kings 23:31

Jehoahaz’s Reign over Judah

23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. ¹³  His mother ¹⁴  was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

2 Kings 24:8

Jehoiachin’s Reign over Judah

24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. ¹⁵  His mother ¹⁶  was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.

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. ¹⁷  His mother ¹⁸  was Hamutal, ¹⁹  the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

¹ tn Heb “and he went and ate and drank.”

² tn Heb “Attend to this accursed woman and bury her for she was the daughter of a king.”

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⁶ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

⁷ tn The parallel passage in 2 Chr 29:1 has “Abijah.”

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⁸ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

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¹⁰ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.

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¹⁴ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

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¹⁶ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

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¹⁸ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

¹⁹ tc Some textual witnesses support the consonantal text (Kethib) in reading “Hamital.”