2 Kings 3:27
Context3:27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel, 1 so they broke off the attack 2 and returned to their homeland.
2 Kings 12:21
Context12:21 His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. 3 He was buried 4 with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king.
2 Kings 19:37
Context19:37 One day, 5 as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, 6 his sons 7 Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. 8 They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.
2 Kings 21:7
Context21:7 He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. 9


[3:27] 1 tn Heb “there was great anger against Israel.”
[3:27] 2 tn Heb “they departed from him.”
[12:21] 3 tn Heb “struck him down and he died.”
[12:21] 4 tn Heb “they buried him.”
[19:37] 5 sn The assassination probably took place in 681
[19:37] 6 sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.
[19:37] 7 tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew
[19:37] 8 sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.
[21:7] 7 tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name perpetually (or perhaps “forever”).”