2 Kings 1:17

1:17 He died just as the Lord had prophesied through Elijah. ¹  In the second year of the reign of King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah, Ahaziah’s brother Jehoram replaced him as king of Israel, because he had no son. ² 

2 Kings 3:27

3:27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel, ³  so they broke off the attack ⁴  and returned to their homeland.

2 Kings 8:6

8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. ⁵  The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, ⁶  “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

2 Kings 12:21

12:21 His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. ⁷  He was buried ⁸  with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 13:21

13:21 One day some men ⁹  were burying a man when they spotted ¹⁰  a raiding party. So they threw the dead man ¹¹  into Elisha’s tomb. When the body ¹²  touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man ¹³  came to life and stood on his feet.

2 Kings 13:25

13:25 Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash took back from ¹⁴  Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities.

2 Kings 14:7

14:7 He defeated ¹⁵  10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.

2 Kings 15:16

15:16 At that time Menahem came from Tirzah and attacked Tiphsah. He struck down all who lived in the city and the surrounding territory, because they would not surrender. ¹⁶  He even ripped open the pregnant women.

2 Kings 16:6

16:6 (At that time King Rezin of Syria ¹⁷  recovered Elat for Syria; he drove the Judahites from there. ¹⁸  Syrians ¹⁹  arrived in Elat and live there to this very day.)

2 Kings 17:6

17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel ²⁰  to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 17:23

17:23 Finally ²¹  the Lord rejected Israel ²²  just as he had warned he would do ²³  through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

2 Kings 17:41

17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

2 Kings 18:12

18:12 This happened because they did not obey ²⁴  the Lord their God and broke his agreement with them. ²⁵  They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded. ²⁶ 

2 Kings 19:37

19:37 One day, ²⁷  as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, ²⁸  his sons ²⁹  Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. ³⁰  They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

2 Kings 21:11

21:11 “King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. ³¹  He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols. ³² 

2 Kings 23:30

23:30 His servants transported his dead body ³³  from Megiddo in a chariot and brought it to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his tomb. The people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, poured olive oil on his head, ³⁴  and made him king in his father’s place.

2 Kings 24:7

24:7 The king of Egypt did not march out from his land again, for the king of Babylon conquered all the territory that the king of Egypt had formerly controlled between the Brook of Egypt and the Euphrates River.

[1:17]  ¹ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke through Elijah.”

[1:17]  ² tn Heb “Jehoram replaced him as king…because he had no son.” Some ancient textual witnesses add “his brother,” which was likely added on the basis of the statement later in the verse that Ahaziah had no son.

[3:27]  ³ tn Heb “there was great anger against Israel.”

[3:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “they departed from him.”

[8:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

[8:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

[12:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “struck him down and he died.”

[12:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “they buried him.”

[13:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “and it so happened [that] they.”

[13:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and look, they saw.”

[13:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[13:21]  ¹² tn Heb “the man.”

[13:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the dead man) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Otherwise the reader might think it was Elisha rather than the unnamed dead man who came back to life.

[13:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “from the hand of.”

[14:7]  ¹³ tn Or “struck down.”

[15:16]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “then Menahem attacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its borders from Tirzah, for it would not open, and he attacked.”

[16:6]  ¹⁷ tc Some prefer to read “the king of Edom” and “for Edom” here. The names Syria (Heb “Aram,” אֲרָם, ’aram) and Edom (אֱדֹם, ’edom) are easily confused in the Hebrew consonantal script.

[16:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “from Elat.”

[16:6]  ¹⁹ tc The consonantal text (Kethib), supported by many medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac version, and some mss of the Targum and Vulgate, read “Syrians” (Heb “Arameans”). The marginal reading (Qere), supported by the LXX, Targums, and Vulgate, reads “Edomites.”

[17:6]  ¹⁹ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

[17:23]  ²¹ tn Heb “until.”

[17:23]  ²² tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”

[17:23]  ²³ tn Heb “just as he said.”

[18:12]  ²³ tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”

[18:12]  ²⁴ tn Heb “his covenant.”

[18:12]  ²⁵ tn Heb “all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded, and they did not listen and they did not act.”

[19:37]  ²⁵ sn The assassination probably took place in 681 b.c.

[19:37]  ²⁶ sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.

[19:37]  ²⁷ tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions. Cf. Isa 37:38.

[19:37]  ²⁸ sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.

[21:11]  ²⁷ tn Heb “these horrible sins.”

[21:11]  ²⁸ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:30]  ²⁹ tn Heb “him, dead.”

[23:30]  ³⁰ tn Or “anointed him.”