2 Kings 20:10

20:10 Hezekiah answered, “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps, but not for it ¹  to go back ten steps.”

2 Kings 5:5

5:5 The king of Syria said, “Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman ²  went, taking with him ten talents ³  of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, ⁴  and ten suits of clothes.

2 Kings 20:9

20:9 Isaiah replied, “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said. Do you want the shadow to move ahead ten steps or to go back ten steps?” ⁵ 

2 Kings 13:7

13:7 Jehoahaz had no army left ⁶  except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers. The king of Syria had destroyed his troops ⁷  and trampled on them like dust. ⁸ 

2 Kings 20:11

20:11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord ⁹  made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 15:17

Menahem’s Reign over Israel

15:17 In the thirty-ninth year of King Azariah’s reign over Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel. He reigned for twelve years in Samaria. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 14:7

14:7 He defeated ¹²  10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.

2 Kings 24:14

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.

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.

2 Kings 7:16

7:16 Then the people went out and looted the Syrian camp. A seah ¹⁶  of finely milled flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, just as the Lord had said they would. ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 7:18

7:18 The prophet told the king, “Two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of finely milled flour for a shekel; this will happen about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria.”

2 Kings 16:17

16:17 King Ahaz took off the frames of the movable stands, and removed the basins from them. He took “The Sea” ¹⁸  down from the bronze bulls that supported it ¹⁹  and put it on the pavement.

2 Kings 7:1

7:1 Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord says, ‘About this time tomorrow a seah ²⁰  of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.’”

[20:10]  ¹ tn Heb “the shadow.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[5:5]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:5]  ³ 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 750 pounds of silver (cf. NCV, NLT, CEV).

[5:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “six thousand gold […].” The unit of measure is not given in the Hebrew text. A number of English versions supply “pieces” (e.g., KJV, ASV, NAB, TEV) or “shekels” (e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[20:9]  ³ tn The Hebrew הָלַךְ (halakh, a perfect), “it has moved ahead,” should be emended to הֲיֵלֵךְ (hayelekh, an imperfect with interrogative he [ה] prefixed), “shall it move ahead.”

[13:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “Indeed he did not leave to Jehoahaz people.” The identity of the subject is uncertain, but the king of Syria, mentioned later in the verse, is a likely candidate.

[13:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “them,” i.e., the remainder of this troops.

[13:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “and made them like dust for trampling.”

[20:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.”

[15:17]  ⁶ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[14:7]  ⁷ tn Or “struck down.”

[25:25]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”

[25:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”

[7:16]  ⁹ sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.

[7:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord.”

[16:17]  ¹⁰ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.

[16:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “that [were] under it.”

[7:1]  ¹¹ sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.