2 Kings 7:10

7:10 So they went and called out to the gatekeepers ¹  of the city. They told them, “We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn’t even hear a man’s voice. ²  But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up.” ³ 

2 Kings 9:21

9:21 Jehoram ordered, “Hitch up my chariot.” ⁴  When his chariot had been hitched up, ⁵  King Jehoram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah went out in their respective chariots ⁶  to meet Jehu. They met up with him ⁷  in the plot of land that had once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel.

2 Kings 23:33

23:33 Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath and prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem. ⁸  He imposed on the land a special tax ⁹  of one hundred talents ¹⁰  of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Kings 25:7

25:7 Zedekiah’s sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch. ¹¹  The king of Babylon ¹²  then had Zedekiah’s eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon.

2 Kings 17:4

17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. ¹³  Hoshea had sent messengers to King So ¹⁴  of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. ¹⁵ 

[7:10]  ¹ tn The MT has a singular form (“gatekeeper”), but the context suggests a plural. The pronoun that follows (“them”) is plural and a plural noun appears in v. 11. The Syriac Peshitta and the Targum have the plural here.

[7:10]  ² tn Heb “and, look, there was no man or voice of a man there.”

[7:10]  ³ tn Heb “but the horses are tied up and the donkeys are tied up and the tents are as they were.”

[9:21]  ⁴ tn The words “my chariot” are added for clarification.

[9:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he hitched up his chariot.”

[9:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “each in his chariot and they went out.”

[9:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “they found him.”

[23:33]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ tn Or “fine.”

[23:33]  ⁹ 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.”

[25:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “were killed before his eyes.”

[25:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”

[17:4]  ¹⁴ sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.

[17:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”