2 Kings 4:41

4:41 He said, “Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said, “Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.” ¹  There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.

2 Kings 6:25

6:25 Samaria’s food supply ran out. ²  They laid siege to it so long that ³  a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver ⁴  and a quarter of a kab ⁵  of dove’s droppings ⁶  for five shekels of silver. ⁷ 

2 Kings 9:7

9:7 You will destroy the family of your master Ahab. ⁸  I will get revenge against Jezebel for the shed blood of my servants the prophets and for the shed blood of all the Lord’s servants. ⁹ 

2 Kings 9:19

9:19 So he sent a second horseman out to them ¹⁰  and he said, “This is what the king says, ‘Is everything all right?’” ¹¹  Jehu replied, “None of your business! Follow me.”

2 Kings 11:9

11:9 The officers of the units of hundreds did just as ¹²  Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath, and reported ¹³  to Jehoiada the priest.

2 Kings 17:7

A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History

17:7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of ¹⁴  Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped ¹⁵  other gods;

2 Kings 17:24

The King of Assyria Populates Israel with Foreigners

17:24 The king of Assyria brought foreigners ¹⁶  from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria ¹⁷  in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

2 Kings 23:33

23:33 Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath and prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem. ¹⁸  He imposed on the land a special tax ¹⁹  of one hundred talents ²⁰  of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Kings 25:1

25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside ²¹  it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. ²² 

[4:41]  ¹ tn Or “and let them eat.”

[6:25]  ² tn Heb “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”

[6:25]  ³ tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”

[6:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

[6:25]  ⁵ sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately one quart.

[6:25]  ⁶ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) reads, “dove dung” (חֲרֵייוֹנִים, khareyonim), while the marginal reading (Qere) has “discharge” (דִּבְיוֹנִים, divyonim). Based on evidence from Akkadian, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 79) suggest that “dove’s dung” was a popular name for the inedible husks of seeds.

[6:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

[9:7]  ³ tn Or “strike down the house of Ahab your master.”

[9:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will avenge the shed blood of my servants the prophets and the shed blood of all the servants of the Lord from the hand of Jezebel.”

[9:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he came to them.”

[9:19]  ⁵ tc The MT has simply “peace,” omitting the prefixed interrogative particle. It is likely that the particle has been accidentally omitted; several ancient witnesses include it or assume its presence.

[11:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to all that.”

[11:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “came.”

[17:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[17:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “feared.”

[17:24]  ⁷ tn The object is supplied in the translation.

[17:24]  ⁸ sn In vv. 24-29 Samaria stands for the entire northern kingdom of Israel.

[23:33]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Or “fine.”

[23:33]  ¹⁰ 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.”

[25:1]  ⁹ tn Or “against.”

[25:1]  ¹⁰ sn This would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).