2 Kings 7:6
Context7:6 The Lord had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!”
2 Kings 17:4
Context17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. 1 Hoshea had sent messengers to King So 2 of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. 3
2 Kings 17:36
Context17:36 Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; 4 bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.
2 Kings 23:29
Context23:29 During Josiah’s reign Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt marched toward 5 the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to fight him, but Necho 6 killed him at Megiddo 7 when he saw him.
2 Kings 23:34
Context23:34 Pharaoh Necho made Josiah’s son Eliakim king in Josiah’s place, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. He took Jehoahaz to Egypt, where he died. 8


[17:4] 1 tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”
[17:4] 2 sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.
[17:4] 3 tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”
[17:36] 1 tn Heb “and outstretched arm.”
[23:29] 1 tn Heb “went up to.” The idiom עַל…עָלָה (’alah …’al) can sometimes mean “go up against,” but here it refers to Necho’s attempt to aid the Assyrians in their struggle with the Babylonians.
[23:29] 2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Necho) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[23:29] 3 map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.
[23:34] 1 tn Heb “and he took Jehoahaz, and he came to Egypt and he died there.”