2 Kings 9:18

9:18 So the horseman ¹  went to meet him and said, “This is what the king says, ‘Is everything all right?’” ²  Jehu replied, “None of your business! ³  Follow me.” The watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but hasn’t started back.”

2 Kings 11:4

11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned ⁴  the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians ⁵  and the royal bodyguard. ⁶  He met with them ⁷  in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement ⁸  with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.

2 Kings 13:12

13:12 The rest of the events of Joash’s ⁹  reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 13:21

13:21 One day some men ¹¹  were burying a man when they spotted ¹²  a raiding party. So they threw the dead man ¹³  into Elisha’s tomb. When the body ¹⁴  touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man ¹⁵  came to life and stood on his feet.

2 Kings 14:15

14:15 The rest of the events of Jehoash’s ¹⁶  reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 14:28

14:28 The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including all his accomplishments, his military success in restoring Israelite control over Damascus and Hamath, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁸ 

2 Kings 17:34

17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship ¹⁹  the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave ²⁰  the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

2 Kings 17:41

17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

2 Kings 18:4

18:4 He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. ²¹  He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time ²²  the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan. ²³ 

2 Kings 19:37--20:1

19:37 One day, ²⁴  as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, ²⁵  his sons ²⁶  Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. ²⁷  They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

Hezekiah is Healed

20:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. ²⁸  The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’” ²⁹ 

2 Kings 20:20

20:20 The rest of the events of Hezekiah’s reign and all his accomplishments, including how he built a pool and conduit to bring ³⁰  water into the city, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ³¹ 

2 Kings 23:19

23:19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. ³²  He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. ³³ 

[9:18]  ¹ tn Heb “the rider of the horse.”

[9:18]  ² tn Heb “Is there peace?”

[9:18]  ³ tn Heb “What concerning you and concerning peace?” That is, “What concern is that to you?”

[11:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”

[11:4]  ⁵ sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.

[11:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “the runners.”

[11:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”

[11:4]  ⁸ tn Or “covenant.”

[13:12]  ⁷ sn Jehoash and Joash are alternate forms of the same name.

[13:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Joash, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”

[13:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and it so happened [that] they.”

[13:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and look, they saw.”

[13:21]  ¹² tn Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[13:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “the man.”

[13:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the dead man) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Otherwise the reader might think it was Elisha rather than the unnamed dead man who came back to life.

[14:15]  ¹³ sn Jehoash and Joash are alternate forms of the same name.

[14:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoash, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”

[14:28]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?” The phrase “to Judah” is probably not original; it may be a scribal addition by a Judahite scribe who was trying to link Jeroboam’s conquests with the earlier achievements of David and Solomon, who ruled in Judah. The Syriac Peshitta has simply “to Israel.” M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 162) offer this proposal, but acknowledge that it is “highly speculative.”

[17:34]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “fear.”

[17:34]  ²⁰ tn Heb “commanded.”

[18:4]  ²² tn The term is singular in the MT but plural in the LXX and other ancient versions. It is also possible to regard the singular as a collective singular, especially in the context of other plural items.

[18:4]  ²³ tn Heb “until those days.”

[18:4]  ²⁴ tn In Hebrew the name sounds like the phrase נְחַשׁ הַנְּחֹשֶׁת (nÿkhash hannÿkhoshet), “bronze serpent.”

[19:37]  ²⁵ sn The assassination probably took place in 681 b.c.

[19:37]  ²⁶ sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.

[19:37]  ²⁷ tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions. Cf. Isa 37:38.

[19:37]  ²⁸ sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.

[20:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying.”

[20:1]  ²⁹ tn Heb “will not live.”

[20:20]  ³¹ tn Heb “and he brought.”

[20:20]  ³² tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Hezekiah, and all his strength, and how he made a pool and a conduit and brought water to the city, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[23:19]  ³⁴ tc Heb “which the kings of Israel had made, angering.” The object has been accidentally omitted in the MT. It appears in the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate versions.

[23:19]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”