2 Kings 3:12

3:12 Jehoshaphat said, “The Lord speaks through him.” ¹  So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to visit him.

2 Kings 3:20

3:20 Sure enough, the next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water came flowing down from Edom and filled the land. ² 

2 Kings 8:28

8:28 He joined Ahab’s son Joram in a battle against King Hazael of Syria at Ramoth Gilead in which the Syrians defeated Joram.

2 Kings 9:32

9:32 He looked up at the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three ³  eunuchs looked down at him.

2 Kings 11:8

11:8 You must surround the king. Each of you must hold his weapon in his hand. Whoever approaches your ranks must be killed. You must accompany the king wherever he goes.” ⁴ 

2 Kings 12:15

12:15 They did not audit the treasurers who disbursed ⁵  the funds to the foremen, for they were honest. ⁶ 

2 Kings 15:19

15:19 Pul ⁷  king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid ⁸  him ⁹  a thousand talents ¹⁰  of silver to gain his support ¹¹  and to solidify his control of the kingdom. ¹² 

2 Kings 17:35

17:35 The Lord made an agreement ¹³  with them ¹⁴  and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them.

2 Kings 18:23

18:23 Now make a deal ¹⁵  with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.

2 Kings 19:9

19:9 The king ¹⁶  heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. ¹⁷  He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

2 Kings 23:18

23:18 The king ¹⁸  said, “Leave it alone! No one must touch his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, as well as the bones of the Israelite prophet buried beside him. ¹⁹ 

[3:12]  ¹ tn Heb “the word of the Lord is with him.”

[3:20]  ² tn Heb “and in the morning, when the offering is offered up, look, water was coming from the way of Edom, and the land was filled with water.”

[9:32]  ³ tn Heb “two, three.” The narrator may be intentionally vague or uncertain here, or the two numbers may represent alternate traditions.

[11:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “and be with the king in his going out and in his coming in.”

[12:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “gave.”

[12:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they did not conduct a reckoning of the men who gave the silver into their hand to give to the doers of the work, for in honesty they were working.”

[15:19]  ⁶ sn Pul was a nickname of Tiglath-pileser III (cf. 15:29). See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 171-72.

[15:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “gave.”

[15:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “Pul.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:19]  ⁹ 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 75,000 pounds of silver (cf. NCV “about seventy-four thousand pounds”); NLT “thirty-seven tons”; CEV “over thirty tons”; TEV “34,000 kilogrammes.”

[15:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “so his hands would be with him.”

[15:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to keep hold of the kingdom in his hand.”

[17:35]  ⁷ tn Or “covenant.”

[17:35]  ⁸ sn That is, the descendants of Jacob/Israel (see v. 35b).

[18:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “exchange pledges.”

[19:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘Look, he has come out to fight with you.’”

[23:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and they left undisturbed his bones, the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.” If the phrase “the bones of the prophet” were appositional to “his bones,” one would expect the sentence to end “from Judah” (see v. 17). Apparently the “prophet” referred to in the second half of the verse is the old prophet from Bethel who buried the man of God from Judah in his own tomb and instructed his sons to bury his bones there as well (1 Kgs 13:30-31). One expects the text to read “from Bethel,” but “Samaria” (which was not even built at the time of the incident recorded in 1 Kgs 13) is probably an anachronistic reference to the northern kingdom in general. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:32 and the discussion in M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 290.