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 ¹  up against Samaria ²  and besieged it.

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh ³  day of the fifth month, ⁴  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ⁵  who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. ⁶ 

[18:9]  ¹ tn Heb “went” (also in v. 13).

[18:9]  ² map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[25:8]  ³ tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

[25:8]  ⁴ sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:8]  ⁵ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[25:8]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.