Discovery Box2 Kings 17:4
Context17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. 1 Hoshea had sent messengers to King So 2 of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. 3
2 Kings 18:9
Context18:9 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 4 up against Samaria 5 and besieged it.
2 Kings 25:8
Context25:8 On the seventh 6 day of the fifth month, 7 in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard 8 who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. 9
2 Kings 25:27
Context25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh 10 day of the twelfth month, 11 King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 12 King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 13 from prison.
[17:4] 1 tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”
[17:4] 2 sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.
[17:4] 3 tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”
[18:9] 4 tn Heb “went” (also in v. 13).
[18:9] 5 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
[25:8] 7 tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”
[25:8] 8 sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586
[25:8] 9 tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.
[25:8] 10 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[25:27] 10 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
[25:27] 11 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561
[25:27] 12 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
[25:27] 13 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.
