2 Kings 3:25

3:25 They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. ¹  They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree.

Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, ²  but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

2 Kings 5:18

5:18 May the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to worship, and he leans on my arm and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.” ³ 

2 Kings 7:17

7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man ⁴  at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. ⁵  This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. ⁶ 

2 Kings 8:29

8:29 King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ⁷  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. King Ahaziah son of Jehoram of Judah went down to visit ⁸  Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was ill.

2 Kings 14:13

14:13 King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, in Beth Shemesh. He ⁹  attacked ¹⁰  Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 23:15

23:15 He also tore down the altar in Bethel ¹²  at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. ¹³  He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole. ¹⁴ 

[3:25]  ¹ tn Heb “and [on] every good portion they were throwing each man his stone and they filled it.” The vav + perfect (“and they filled”) here indicates customary action contemporary with the situation described in the preceding main clause (where a customary imperfect is used, “they were throwing”). See the note at 3:4.

[3:25]  ² tn Heb “until he had allowed its stones to remain in Kir Hareseth.”

[5:18]  ³ tn Heb “When my master enters the house of Rimmon to bow down there, and he leans on my hand and I bow down [in] the house of Rimmon, when I bow down [in] the house of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this thing.”

[7:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”

[7:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”

[7:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”

[8:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

[8:29]  ⁸ tn Heb “to see.”

[14:13]  ⁹ tc The MT has the plural form of the verb, but the final vav (ו) is virtually dittographic. The word that immediately follows in the Hebrew text begins with a yod (י). The form should be emended to the singular, which is consistent in number with the verb (“he broke down”) that follows.

[14:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “came to.”

[14:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “four hundred cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

[23:15]  ¹¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[23:15]  ¹² tn Heb “And also the altar that is in Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin, also that altar and the high place he tore down.” The more repetitive Hebrew text is emphatic.

[23:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “he burned the high place, crushing to dust, and he burned the Asherah pole.” High places per se are never referred to as being burned elsewhere. בָּמָה (bamah) here stands by metonymy for the combustible items located on the high place. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.