2 Kings 1:9

1:9 The king ¹  sent a captain and his fifty soldiers ²  to retrieve Elijah. ³  The captain ⁴  went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. ⁵  He told him, “Prophet, ⁶  the king says, ‘Come down!’”

2 Kings 12:11

12:11 They would then hand over ⁷  the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen ⁸  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,

2 Kings 16:14

16:14 He moved the bronze altar that stood in the Lord’s presence from the front of the temple (between the altar and the Lord’s temple) and put it on the north side of the new ⁹  altar.

2 Kings 19:26

19:26 Their residents are powerless, ¹⁰ 

they are terrified and ashamed.

They are as short-lived as plants in the field,

or green vegetation. ¹¹ 

They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops ¹² 

when it is scorched by the east wind. ¹³ 

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh ¹⁴  day of the fifth month, ¹⁵  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ¹⁶  who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. ¹⁷ 

[1:9]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:9]  ² tn Heb “officer of fifty and his fifty.”

[1:9]  ³ tn Heb “to him.”

[1:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the captain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:9]  ⁵ sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.

[1:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 10, 11, 12, 13).

[12:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “would give.”

[12:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

[16:14]  ¹³ tn The word “new” is added in the translation for clarification.

[19:26]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “short of hand.”

[19:26]  ²⁰ tn Heb “they are plants in the field and green vegetation.” The metaphor emphasizes how short-lived these seemingly powerful cities really were. See Ps 90:5-6; Isa 40:6-8, 24.

[19:26]  ²¹ tn Heb “[they are] grass on the rooftops.” See the preceding note.

[19:26]  ²² tc The Hebrew text has “scorched before the standing grain” (perhaps meaning “before it reaches maturity”), but it is preferable to emend קָמָה (qamah), “standing grain,” to קָדִים (qadim), “east wind” (with the support of 1Q Isa^a in Isa 37:27).

[25:8]  ²⁵ tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

[25:8]  ²⁶ sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:8]  ²⁷ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[25:8]  ²⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.