2 Kings 19:10

19:10 “Tell King Hezekiah of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust mislead you when he says, “Jerusalem will not be handed over ¹  to the king of Assyria.”

2 Kings 21:7

21:7 He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. ² 

2 Kings 21:16

21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, ³  in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. ⁴ 

2 Kings 22:14

22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shullam son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the supervisor of the wardrobe. ⁵  (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh ⁶  district.) They stated their business, ⁷ 

2 Kings 23:2

23:2 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud ⁸  all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 23:5-6

23:5 He eliminated ⁹  the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to offer sacrifices ¹⁰  on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the area right around Jerusalem. (They offered sacrifices ¹¹  to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the constellations, and all the stars in the sky.) 23:6 He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. ¹²  He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard. ¹³ 

2 Kings 23:13

23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, ¹⁴  that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.

2 Kings 23:27

23:27 The Lord announced, “I will also spurn Judah, ¹⁵  just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose – both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, “I will live there.” ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 23:30

23:30 His servants transported his dead body ¹⁷  from Megiddo in a chariot and brought it to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his tomb. The people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, poured olive oil on his head, ¹⁸  and made him king in his father’s place.

2 Kings 24:14-15

24:14 He deported all the residents of Jerusalem, including all the officials and all the soldiers (10,000 people in all). This included all the craftsmen and those who worked with metal. No one was left except for the poorest among the people of the land. 24:15 He deported Jehoiachin from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with the king’s mother and wives, his eunuchs, and the high-ranking officials of the land. ¹⁹ 

2 Kings 25:1

25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside ²⁰  it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. ²¹ 

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh ²²  day of the fifth month, ²³  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ²⁴  who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. ²⁵ 

[19:10]  ¹ tn Heb “will not be given.”

[21:7]  ² tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name perpetually (or perhaps “forever”).”

[21:16]  ³ tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”

[21:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

[22:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”

[22:14]  ⁵ tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.

[22:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they spoke to her.”

[23:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “read in their ears.”

[23:5]  ⁶ tn Perhaps, “destroyed.”

[23:5]  ⁷ tn Or “burn incense.”

[23:5]  ⁸ tn Or “burned incense.”

[23:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he burned it in the Kidron Valley.”

[23:6]  ⁸ tc Heb “on the grave of the sons of the people.” Some Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses read the plural “graves.”

[23:13]  ⁸ sn This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mashÿkhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mashÿkhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.

[23:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “Also Judah I will turn away from my face.”

[23:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “My name will be there.”

[23:30]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “him, dead.”

[23:30]  ¹¹ tn Or “anointed him.”

[24:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; the mother of the king and the wives of the king and his eunuchs and the mighty of the land he led into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.”

[25:1]  ¹² tn Or “against.”

[25:1]  ¹³ sn This would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

[25:8]  ¹³ tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

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

[25:8]  ¹⁵ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[25:8]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.