2 Kings 12:20-21

12:20 His servants conspired against him ¹  and murdered Joash at Beth-Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla. ²  12:21 His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. ³  He was buried ⁴  with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 15:10

15:10 Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him; he assassinated him in Ibleam ⁵  and took his place as king.

2 Kings 15:14

15:14 Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to ⁶  Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh. ⁷  He killed him and took his place as king.

2 Kings 15:25

15:25 His officer Pekah son of Remaliah conspired against him. He and fifty Gileadites assassinated Pekahiah, as well as Argob and Arieh, in Samaria in the fortress of the royal palace. ⁸  Pekah then took his place as king.

2 Kings 15:30

15:30 Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He assassinated him ⁹  and took his place as king, in the twentieth year of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah.

2 Kings 21:23

21:23 Amon’s servants conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.

2 Kings 21:2

21:2 He did evil in the sight of ¹⁰  the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations ¹¹  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

2 Kings 25:27-28

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ¹²  day of the twelfth month, ¹³  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ¹⁴  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ¹⁵  from prison. 25:28 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than ¹⁶  the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

[12:20]  ¹ tn Heb “rose up and conspired [with] a conspiracy.”

[12:20]  ² tn Heb “Beth Millo which goes down [toward] Silla.”

[12:21]  ³ tn Heb “struck him down and he died.”

[12:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “they buried him.”

[15:10]  ⁵ tc The MT reads, “and he struck him down before the people and killed him” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). However, the reading קָבָל עָם (qaval ’am), “before the people,” is problematic to some because קָבָל is a relatively late Aramaic term. Nevertheless, the Aramaic term qobel certainly antedates the writing of Kings. The bigger problem seems to be the unnecessary intrusion of an Aramaic word at all here. Most interpreters prefer to follow Lucian’s Greek version and read “in Ibleam” (בְיִבְלְעָם, bÿivle’am). Cf. NAB, TEV.

[15:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “and came to.”

[15:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “went up from Tirzah and arrived in Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria.”

[15:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he struck him down in Samaria in the fortress of the house of the king, Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men from the sons of the Gileadites, and they killed him.”

[15:30]  ⁹ tn Heb “and struck him down and killed him.”

[21:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[21:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[25:27]  ¹² sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

[25:27]  ¹³ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:27]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[25:27]  ¹⁵ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.

[25:28]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of.”