2 Kings 24:17

24:17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s ¹  uncle, king in Jehoiachin’s place. He renamed him Zedekiah.

2 Kings 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ²  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ³  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ⁴ 

2 Kings 3:15

3:15 But now, get me a musician.” ⁵  When the musician played, the Lord energized him, ⁶ 

2 Kings 3:2

3:2 He did evil in the sight of ⁷  the Lord, but not to the same degree as his father and mother. He did remove the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.

2 Kings 1:10

1:10 Elijah replied to the captain, ⁸  “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down ⁹  from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

[24:17]  ¹ tn Heb “his.”

[24:1]  ² tn Heb “In his days.”

[24:1]  ³ tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.

[24:1]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”

[3:15]  ⁵ tn The term used refers to one who plays a stringed instrument, perhaps a harp.

[3:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord came on him.” This may refer to what typically happened, “[for] when a musician played, the hand of the Lord would come upon him.”

[3:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[1:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”

[1:10]  ⁹ tn Wordplay contributes to the irony here. The king tells Elijah to “come down” (Hebrew יָרַד, yarad), but Elijah calls fire down (יָרַד) on the arrogant king’s officer.