2 Kings 11:4

11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned ¹  the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians ²  and the royal bodyguard. ³  He met with them ⁴  in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement ⁵  with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.

2 Kings 18:9

18:9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched ⁶  up against Samaria ⁷  and besieged it.

2 Kings 25:25

25:25 But in the seventh month ⁸  Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, ⁹  came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, ¹⁰  as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.

[11:4]  ¹ tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”

[11:4]  ² sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.

[11:4]  ³ tn Heb “the runners.”

[11:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”

[11:4]  ⁵ tn Or “covenant.”

[18:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “went” (also in v. 13).

[18:9]  ⁷ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[25:25]  ¹¹ sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; Jer 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; Jer 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (Jer 40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (Jer 52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).

[25:25]  ¹² tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”

[25:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”