2 Kings 3:21

3:21 Now all Moab had heard that the kings were attacking, ¹  so everyone old enough to fight was mustered and placed at the border. ² 

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 ³  of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.’”

2 Kings 9:30

9:30 Jehu approached Jezreel. When Jezebel heard the news, she put on some eye liner, ⁴  fixed up her hair, and leaned out the window.

2 Kings 13:4

13:4 Jehoahaz asked for the Lord’s mercy ⁵  and the Lord responded favorably, ⁶  for he saw that Israel was oppressed by the king of Syria. ⁷ 

2 Kings 14:11

14:11 But Amaziah would not heed the warning, ⁸  so King Jehoash of Israel attacked. ⁹  He and King Amaziah of Judah met face to face ¹⁰  in Beth Shemesh of Judah.

2 Kings 16:9

16:9 The king of Assyria responded favorably to his request; ¹¹  he ¹²  attacked Damascus and captured it. He deported the people ¹³  to Kir and executed Rezin.

2 Kings 18:28

18:28 The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, ¹⁴  “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 19:8-9

19:8 When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning. ¹⁵  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 19:11

19:11 Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. ¹⁸  Do you really think you will be rescued? ¹⁹ 

2 Kings 19:25

19:25 ²⁰ Certainly you must have heard! ²¹ 

Long ago I worked it out,

In ancient times I planned ²²  it;

and now I am bringing it to pass.

The plan is this:

Fortified cities will crash

into heaps of ruins. ²³ 

2 Kings 20:12

Messengers from Babylon Visit Hezekiah

20:12 At that time Merodach-Baladan ²⁴  son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah was ill.

2 Kings 21:9

21:9 But they did not obey, ²⁵  and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.

2 Kings 21:12

21:12 So this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I am about to bring disaster on Jerusalem and Judah. The news will reverberate in the ears of those who hear about it. ²⁶ 

[3:21]  ¹ tn Heb “had come up to fight them.”

[3:21]  ² tn Heb “and they mustered all who tied on a belt and upwards, and they stood at the border.”

[7:1]  ³ sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.

[9:30]  ⁵ tn Heb “she fixed her eyes with antimony.” Antimony (פּוּךְ, pukh) was used as a cosmetic. The narrator portrays her as a prostitute (see Jer 4:30), a role she has played in the spiritual realm (see the note at v. 22).

[13:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord.”

[13:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “and the Lord heard.”

[13:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “for he saw the oppression of Israel, for the king of Syria oppressed them.”

[14:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “did not listen.”

[14:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “went up.”

[14:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “looked at each other [in the] face.”

[16:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “listened to him.”

[16:9]  ¹² tn Heb “the king of Assyria.”

[16:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “it.”

[18:28]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text also has, “and he spoke and said.”

[19:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and the chief adviser returned and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.”

[19:9]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘Look, he has come out to fight with you.’”

[19:11]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, annihilating them.”

[19:11]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and will you be rescued?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No, of course not!”

[19:25]  ²¹ tn Having quoted the Assyrian king’s arrogant words in vv. 23-24, the Lord now speaks to the king.

[19:25]  ²² tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say.

[19:25]  ²³ tn Heb “formed.”

[19:25]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and it is to cause to crash into heaps of ruins fortified cities.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb תְּהִי (tÿhi) is the implied plan, referred to in the preceding lines with third feminine singular pronominal suffixes.

[20:12]  ²³ tc The MT has “Berodach-Baladan,” but several Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses agree with the parallel passage in Isa 39:1 and read “Merodach-Baladan.”

[21:9]  ²⁵ tn Heb “listen.”

[21:12]  ²⁷ tn Heb “so that everyone who hears it, his two ears will quiver.”