2 Kings 4:28

4:28 She said, “Did I ask my master for a son? Didn’t I say, ‘Don’t mislead me?’”

2 Kings 9:28

9:28 His servants took his body ¹  back to Jerusalem ²  and buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David.

2 Kings 10:27

10:27 They demolished ³  the sacred pillar of Baal and ⁴  the temple of Baal; it is used as ⁵  a latrine ⁶  to this very day.

2 Kings 14:5

14:5 When he had secured control of the kingdom, ⁷  he executed the servants who had assassinated his father. ⁸ 

2 Kings 17:39

17:39 Instead you must worship the Lord your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.”

2 Kings 19:17

19:17 It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.

2 Kings 22:11

22:11 When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.

2 Kings 24:17

24:17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s ⁹  uncle, king in Jehoiachin’s place. He renamed him Zedekiah.

2 Kings 25:6

25:6 They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, ¹⁰  where he ¹¹  passed sentence on him.

2 Kings 25:20

25:20 Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

[9:28]  ¹ tn Heb “drove him.”

[9:28]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[10:27]  ¹ tn Or “pulled down.”

[10:27]  ² tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.

[10:27]  ³ tn Heb “and they made it into.”

[10:27]  ⁴ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has the hapax legomenon מַחֲרָאוֹת (makhara’ot), “places to defecate” or “dung houses” (note the related noun חרא (khr’)/חרי (khri), “dung,” HALOT 348-49 s.v. *חֲרָאִים). The marginal reading (Qere) glosses this, perhaps euphemistically, מוֹצָאוֹת (motsa’ot), “outhouses.”

[14:5]  ¹ tn Heb “when the kingdom was secure in his hand.”

[14:5]  ² tn Heb “he struck down his servants, the ones who had struck down the king, his father.”

[24:17]  ¹ tn Heb “his.”

[25:6]  ¹ sn Riblah was a strategic town on the Orontes River in Syria. It was at a crossing of the major roads between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Pharaoh Necho had earlier received Jehoahaz there and put him in chains (2 Kgs 23:33) prior to taking him captive to Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar had set up his base camp for conducting his campaigns against the Palestinian states there and was now sitting in judgment on prisoners brought to him.

[25:6]  ² tn The Hebrew text has the plural form of the verb, but the parallel passage in Jer 52:9 has the singular.