2 Kings 10:3
Context10:3 pick the best and most capable 1 of your master’s sons, place him on his father’s throne, and defend 2 your master’s dynasty.”
2 Kings 13:13
Context13:13 Joash passed away 3 and Jeroboam succeeded him on the throne. 4 Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 14:16
Context14:16 Jehoash passed away 5 and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. His son Jeroboam replaced him as king.)
2 Kings 14:21
Context14:21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.
2 Kings 15:9
Context15:9 He did evil in the sight of 6 the Lord, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate 7 the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.
2 Kings 16:2
Context16:2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. 8 He did not do what pleased the Lord his God, in contrast to his ancestor David. 9
2 Kings 19:12
Context19:12 Were the nations whom my ancestors destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods? 10
2 Kings 21:15
Context21:15 because they have done evil in my sight 11 and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”
2 Kings 21:18
Context21:18 Manasseh passed away 12 and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzzah, and his son Amon replaced him as king.
2 Kings 22:2
Context22:2 He did what the Lord approved 13 and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; 14 he did not deviate to the right or the left.


[10:3] 1 tn Hebrew יָשָׁר (yashar) does not have its normal moral/ethical nuance here (“upright”), but a more neutral sense of “proper, right, suitable.” For the gloss “capable,” see HALOT 450 s.v. יָשָׁר.
[13:13] 3 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
[13:13] 4 tn Heb “sat on his throne.”
[14:16] 5 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
[15:9] 7 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
[15:9] 8 tn Heb “turn away from.”
[16:2] 9 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[16:2] 10 tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the
[19:12] 11 tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them – Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?”
[21:15] 13 tn Heb “in my eyes.”
[21:18] 15 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
[22:2] 17 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
[22:2] 18 tn Heb “and walked in all the way of David his father.”