2 Kings 3:7

3:7 He sent ¹  this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you fight with me against Moab?” Jehoshaphat ²  replied, “I will join you in the campaign; my army and horses are at your disposal.” ³ 

2 Kings 9:15

9:15 But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ⁴  when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. ⁵  Jehu told his supporters, ⁶  “If you really want me to be king, ⁷  then don’t let anyone escape from the city to go and warn Jezreel.”

2 Kings 9:1

Jehu Becomes King

9:1 Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild ⁸  and told him, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container ⁹  of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

2 Kings 22:4

22:4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down ¹⁰  the silver that has been brought by the people to the Lord’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.

2 Kings 22:2

22:2 He did what the Lord approved ¹¹  and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; ¹²  he did not deviate to the right or the left.

2 Kings 18:2-3

18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ¹³  His mother ¹⁴  was Abi, ¹⁵  the daughter of Zechariah. 18:3 He did what the Lord approved, just as his ancestor David had done. ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 18:31

18:31 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. ¹⁷  Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

2 Kings 19:2

19:2 He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, ¹⁸  clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:

2 Kings 22:5

22:5 Have them hand it over to the construction foremen ¹⁹  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it, ²⁰ 

[3:7]  ¹ tn Heb “went and sent.”

[3:7]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoshaphat) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:7]  ³ tn Heb “I will go up – like me, like you; like my people, like your people; like my horses; like your horses.”

[9:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

[9:15]  ⁵ sn See 2 Kgs 8:28-29a.

[9:15]  ⁶ tn The words “his supporters” are added for clarification.

[9:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “If this is your desire.” נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) refers here to the seat of the emotions and will. For other examples of this use of the word, see BDB 660-61 s.v.

[9:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “one of the sons of the prophets.”

[9:1]  ⁹ tn Or “flask.”

[22:4]  ¹⁰ tc The MT has וְיַתֵּם (vÿyattem), “and let them add up” (Hiphil of תָּמָם [tammam], “be complete”), but the appearance of הִתִּיכוּ (hitikhu), “they melted down” (Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh], “pour out”) in v. 9 suggests that the verb form should be emended to וְיַתֵּךְ (vÿyattekh), “and let him melt down” (a Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh]). For a discussion of this and other options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 281.

[22:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”

[22:2]  ¹² tn Heb “and walked in all the way of David his father.”

[18:2]  ¹³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[18:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

[18:2]  ¹⁵ tn The parallel passage in 2 Chr 29:1 has “Abijah.”

[18:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which David his father had done.”

[18:31]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”

[19:2]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “elders of the priests.”

[22:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

[22:5]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and let them give it to the doers of the work who are in the house of the Lord to repair the damages to the house.”