2 Kings 17:33

17:33 They were worshiping ¹  the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.

2 Kings 17:2

17:2 He did evil in the sight of ²  the Lord, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.

2 Kings 7:3

7:3 Now four men with a skin disease ³  were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, “Why are we just sitting here waiting to die? ⁴ 

2 Kings 18:5

18:5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; in this regard there was none like him among the kings of Judah either before or after. ⁵ 

2 Kings 19:26

19:26 Their residents are powerless, ⁶ 

they are terrified and ashamed.

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

or green vegetation. ⁷ 

They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops ⁸ 

when it is scorched by the east wind. ⁹ 

2 Kings 17:41

17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

2 Kings 18:4

18:4 He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. ¹⁰  He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time ¹¹  the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan. ¹² 

2 Kings 25:25

25:25 But in the seventh month ¹³  Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, ¹⁴  came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, ¹⁵  as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.

[17:33]  ¹ tn Heb “fearing.”

[17:2]  ² tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[7:3]  ³ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 5:1.

[7:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “until we die.”

[18:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “and after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, and those who were before him.”

[19:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “short of hand.”

[19:26]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “[they are] grass on the rooftops.” See the preceding note.

[19:26]  ⁸ 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).

[18:4]  ⁶ tn The term is singular in the MT but plural in the LXX and other ancient versions. It is also possible to regard the singular as a collective singular, especially in the context of other plural items.

[18:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “until those days.”

[18:4]  ⁸ tn In Hebrew the name sounds like the phrase נְחַשׁ הַנְּחֹשֶׁת (nÿkhash hannÿkhoshet), “bronze serpent.”

[25:25]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”

[25:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”