2 Kings 3:5
Context3:5 When Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
2 Kings 18:7
Context18:7 The Lord was with him; he succeeded in all his endeavors. 1 He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to submit to him. 2
2 Kings 23:33
Context23:33 Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath and prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem. 3 He imposed on the land a special tax 4 of one hundred talents 5 of silver and a talent of gold.
2 Kings 24:20
Context24:20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence. 6 Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.


[18:7] 1 tn Heb “in all which he went out [to do], he was successful.”
[18:7] 2 tn Heb “and did not serve him.”
[23:33] 1 tc The consonantal text (Kethib) has “when [he was] ruling in Jerusalem,” but the marginal reading (Qere), which has support from Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses, has “[preventing him] from ruling in Jerusalem.”
[23:33] 3 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 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “almost four tons of silver and about seventy-five pounds of gold.”
[24:20] 1 tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the