2 Kings 8:24

8:24 Joram passed away ¹  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Ahaziah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 10:2

10:2 “You have with you the sons of your master, chariots and horses, a fortified city, and weapons. So when this letter arrives, ² 

2 Kings 11:20

11:20 All the people of the land celebrated, for the city had rest now that they had killed Athaliah with the sword in the royal palace.

2 Kings 15:7

15:7 Azariah passed away ³  and was buried ⁴  with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Jotham replaced him as king.

2 Kings 15:38

15:38 Jotham passed away ⁵  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Ahaz replaced him as king.

2 Kings 16:20

16:20 Ahaz passed away ⁶  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 17:29

17:29 But each of these nations made ⁷  its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria ⁸  had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

2 Kings 18:8

18:8 He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from the watchtower to the city fortress. ⁹ 

2 Kings 18:11

18:11 The king of Assyria deported the people of Israel ¹⁰  to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 18:13

Sennacherib Invades Judah

18:13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

2 Kings 18:30

18:30 Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord when he says, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”

2 Kings 19:25

19:25 ¹¹ Certainly you must have heard! ¹² 

Long ago I worked it out,

In ancient times I planned ¹³  it;

and now I am bringing it to pass.

The plan is this:

Fortified cities will crash

into heaps of ruins. ¹⁴ 

[8:24]  ¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[10:2]  ² tn Heb “And now when this letter comes to you – with you are the sons of your master and with you are chariots and horses and a fortified city and weapons.”

[15:7]  ³ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[15:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they buried him.”

[15:38]  ⁴ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[16:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[17:29]  ⁶ sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.

[17:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.

[18:8]  ⁷ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 17:9.

[18:11]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

[19:25]  ⁹ tn Having quoted the Assyrian king’s arrogant words in vv. 23-24, the Lord now speaks to the king.

[19:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say.

[19:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “formed.”

[19:25]  ¹² tn Heb “and it is to cause to crash into heaps of ruins fortified cities.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb תְּהִי (tÿhi) is the implied plan, referred to in the preceding lines with third feminine singular pronominal suffixes.