2 Kings 15:19

15:19 Pul ¹  king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid ²  him ³  a thousand talents ⁴  of silver to gain his support ⁵  and to solidify his control of the kingdom. ⁶ 

2 Kings 8:20

8:20 During his reign Edom freed themselves from Judah’s control and set up their own king. ⁷ 

2 Kings 8:22

8:22 So Edom has remained free from Judah’s control to this very day. ⁸  At that same time Libnah also rebelled.

2 Kings 14:5

14:5 When he had secured control of the kingdom, ⁹  he executed the servants who had assassinated his father. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 7:17

7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man ¹¹  at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. ¹²  This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. ¹³ 

2 Kings 19:7

19:7 Look, I will take control of his mind; ¹⁴  he will receive ¹⁵  a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down ¹⁶  with a sword in his own land.”’”

2 Kings 21:6

21:6 He passed his son ¹⁷  through the fire ¹⁸  and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it. ¹⁹  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ²⁰ 

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.

2 Kings 10:5

10:5 So the palace supervisor, ²¹  the city commissioner, ²²  the leaders, ²³  and the guardians sent this message to Jehu, “We are your subjects! ²⁴  Whatever you say, we will do. We will not make anyone king. Do what you consider proper.” ²⁵ 

2 Kings 14:28

14:28 The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including all his accomplishments, his military success in restoring Israelite control over Damascus and Hamath, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ²⁶ 

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ²⁷  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ²⁸  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ²⁹  and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law ³⁰  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

[15:19]  ¹ sn Pul was a nickname of Tiglath-pileser III (cf. 15:29). See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 171-72.

[15:19]  ² tn Heb “gave.”

[15:19]  ³ tn Heb “Pul.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:19]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 75,000 pounds of silver (cf. NCV “about seventy-four thousand pounds”); NLT “thirty-seven tons”; CEV “over thirty tons”; TEV “34,000 kilogrammes.”

[15:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “so his hands would be with him.”

[15:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “to keep hold of the kingdom in his hand.”

[8:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “in his days Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah and enthroned a king over them.”

[8:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “and Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah until this day.”

[14:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “when the kingdom was secure in his hand.”

[14:5]  ²⁰ tn Heb “he struck down his servants, the ones who had struck down the king, his father.”

[7:17]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”

[7:17]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”

[7:17]  ²⁷ tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”

[19:7]  ³¹ tn Heb “I will put in him a spirit.” The precise sense of רוּחַ (ruakh), “spirit,” is uncertain in this context. It may refer to a spiritual being who will take control of his mind (see 1 Kgs 22:19), or it could refer to a disposition of concern and fear. In either case the Lord’s sovereignty over the king is apparent.

[19:7]  ³² tn Heb “hear.”

[19:7]  ³³ tn Heb “cause him to fall,” that is, “kill him.”

[21:6]  ³⁷ tc The LXX has the plural “his sons” here.

[21:6]  ³⁸ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.

[21:6]  ³⁹ tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with conjurers.” The Hebrew אוֹב (’ov), “ritual pit,” refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov), “owner of a ritual pit.” See H. Hoffner, “Second millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967), 385-401.

[21:6]  ⁴⁰ tc Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering.” The third masculine singular pronominal suffix (“him”) has been accidentally omitted in the MT by haplography (note the vav that immediately follows).

[10:5]  ⁴³ tn Heb “the one who was over the house.”

[10:5]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “the one who was over the city.”

[10:5]  ⁴⁵ tn Or “elders.”

[10:5]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “servants.”

[10:5]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “Do what is good in your eyes.”

[14:28]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?” The phrase “to Judah” is probably not original; it may be a scribal addition by a Judahite scribe who was trying to link Jeroboam’s conquests with the earlier achievements of David and Solomon, who ruled in Judah. The Syriac Peshitta has simply “to Israel.” M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 162) offer this proposal, but acknowledge that it is “highly speculative.”

[23:24]  ⁵⁵ tn Here בִּעֵר (bi’er) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.

[23:24]  ⁵⁶ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ⁵⁷ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”