2 Kings 1:14

1:14 Indeed, ¹  fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. ²  So now, please have respect for my life.”

2 Kings 3:3

3:3 Yet he persisted in ³  the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin; he did not turn from them. ⁴ 

2 Kings 4:41

4:41 He said, “Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said, “Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.” ⁵  There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.

2 Kings 6:33

6:33 He was still talking to them when ⁶  the messenger approached ⁷  and said, “Look, the Lord is responsible for this disaster! ⁸  Why should I continue to wait for the Lord to help?”

2 Kings 10:14

10:14 He said, “Capture them alive!” So they captured them alive and then executed all forty-two of them in the cistern at Beth Eked. He left no survivors.

2 Kings 11:12

11:12 Jehoiada ⁹  led out the king’s son and placed on him the crown and the royal insignia. ¹⁰  They proclaimed him king and poured olive oil on his head. ¹¹  They clapped their hands and cried out, “Long live the king!”

2 Kings 11:20

11:20 All the people of the land celebrated, for the city had rest now that they had killed Athaliah with the sword in the royal palace.

2 Kings 15:15

15:15 The rest of the events of Shallum’s reign, including the conspiracy he organized, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ¹² 

2 Kings 19:19

19:19 Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, Lord, are the only God.”

2 Kings 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ¹³  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ¹⁴  and how I have carried out your will.” ¹⁵  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 24:20

24:20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence. ¹⁷  Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

2 Kings 25:7

25:7 Zedekiah’s sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch. ¹⁸  The king of Babylon ¹⁹  then had Zedekiah’s eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon.

2 Kings 25:24

25:24 Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. ²⁰  He said, “You don’t need to be afraid to submit to the Babylonian officials. Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you.”

[1:14]  ¹ tn Heb “look.”

[1:14]  ² tn Heb “their fifty.”

[3:3]  ³ tn Heb “held tight,” or “clung to.”

[3:3]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text has the singular, “it.” Some ancient witnesses read the plural, which seems preferable since the antecedent (“sins”) is plural. Another option is to emend the plural “sins” to a singular. One ancient Greek witness has the singular “sin.”

[4:41]  ⁵ tn Or “and let them eat.”

[6:33]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text also has “look” here.

[6:33]  ⁸ tn Heb “came down to him.”

[6:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “Look, this is a disaster from the Lord.”

[11:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:12]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term עֵדוּת (’edut) normally means “witness” or “testimony.” Here it probably refers to some tangible symbol of kingship, perhaps a piece of jewelry such as an amulet or neck chain. See the discussion in M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 128. Some suggest that a document is in view, perhaps a copy of the royal protocol or of the stipulations of the Davidic covenant. See HALOT 790-91 s.v. עֵדוּת.

[11:12]  ¹¹ tn Or “they made him king and anointed him.”

[15:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he conspired, look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.”

[20:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[20:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

[20:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[20:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”

[24:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the Lord this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until he threw them out from upon his face.”

[25:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “were killed before his eyes.”

[25:7]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:24]  ¹⁹ tn The words “so as to give them…some assurance of safety” are supplied in the translation for clarification.