2 Kings 7:12

7:12 The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, ¹  “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”

2 Kings 8:29

8:29 King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ²  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. King Ahaziah son of Jehoram of Judah went down to visit ³  Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was ill.

2 Kings 10:15

10:15 When he left there, he met ⁴  Jehonadab, son of Rekab, who had been looking for him. ⁵  Jehu greeted him and asked, ⁶  “Are you as committed to me as I am to you?” ⁷  Jehonadab answered, “I am!” Jehu replied, “If so, give me your hand.” ⁸  So he offered his hand and Jehu ⁹  pulled him up into the chariot.

2 Kings 10:19

10:19 So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. ¹⁰  None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of them who fail to appear will lose their lives.” But Jehu was tricking them ¹¹  so he could destroy the servants of Baal.

2 Kings 12:18

12:18 King Jehoash of Judah collected all the sacred items that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, as well as his own sacred items and all the gold that could be found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He sent it all ¹²  to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew ¹³  from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 18:14

18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty. ¹⁴  If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” ¹⁵  So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents ¹⁶  of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 18:17

18:17 The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser ¹⁷  from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, ¹⁸  along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went ¹⁹  and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth. ²⁰ 

[7:12]  ¹ tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 13).

[8:29]  ² tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

[8:29]  ³ tn Heb “to see.”

[10:15]  ³ tn Heb “found.”

[10:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he went from there and found Jehonadab son of Rekab [who was coming] to meet him.”

[10:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he blessed him and said to him.”

[10:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “Is there with your heart [what is] right, as my heart [is] with your heart?”

[10:15]  ⁷ tc Heb “Jehonadab said, ‘There is and there is. Give your hand.’” If the text is allowed to stand, there are two possible ways to understand the syntax of וָיֵשׁ (vayesh), “and there is”: (1) The repetition of יֵשׁ (yesh, “there is and there is”) could be taken as emphatic, “indeed I am.” In this case, the entire statement could be taken as Jehonadab’s words or one could understand the words “give your hand” as Jehu’s. In the latter case the change in speakers is unmarked. (2) וָיֵשׁ begins Jehu’s response and has a conditional force, “if you are.” In this case, the transition in speakers is unmarked. However, it is possible that וַיֹּאמֶר (vayyo’mer), “and he said,” or וַיֹּאמֶר יֵהוּא (vayyo’mer yehu), “and Jehu said,” originally appeared between יֵשׁ and וָיֵשׁ and has accidentally dropped from the text by homoioarcton (note that both the proposed וַיֹּאמֶר and וָיֵשׁ begin with vav, ו). The present translation assumes such a textual reconstruction; it is supported by the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

[10:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests summon to me.”

[10:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “acted with deception [or, ‘trickery’].”

[12:18]  ⁵ tn The object (“it all”) is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[12:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “went up.”

[18:14]  ⁶ tn Or “I have done wrong.”

[18:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

[18:14]  ⁸ 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 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.

[18:17]  ⁷ sn For a discussion of these titles see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 229-30.

[18:17]  ⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[18:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “and they went up and came.”

[18:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the field of the washer.”