2 Kings 9:32

9:32 He looked up at the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three ¹  eunuchs looked down at him.

2 Kings 19:22

19:22 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at?

At whom have you shouted, ² 

and looked so arrogantly? ³ 

At the Holy One of Israel! ⁴ 

2 Kings 9:5

9:5 When he arrived, the officers of the army were sitting there. ⁵  So he said, “I have a message for you, O officer.” ⁶  Jehu asked, “For which one of us?” ⁷  He replied, “For you, O officer.”

2 Kings 18:20

18:20 Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. ⁸  In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me?

2 Kings 18:35

18:35 Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’” ⁹ 

2 Kings 6:11

6:11 This made the king of Syria upset. ¹⁰  So he summoned his advisers ¹¹  and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.” ¹² 

2 Kings 10:13

10:13 Jehu encountered ¹³  the relatives ¹⁴  of King Ahaziah of Judah. He asked, “Who are you?” They replied, “We are Ahaziah’s relatives. We have come down to see how ¹⁵  the king’s sons and the queen mother’s sons are doing.”

2 Kings 18:31

18:31 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. ¹⁶  Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

[9:32]  ¹ tn Heb “two, three.” The narrator may be intentionally vague or uncertain here, or the two numbers may represent alternate traditions.

[19:22]  ² tn Heb “have you raised a voice.”

[19:22]  ³ tn Heb “and lifted your eyes on high?”

[19:22]  ⁴ sn This divine title pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.

[9:5]  ³ tn Heb “and he arrived and look, the officers of the army were sitting.”

[9:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “[there is] a word for me to you, O officer.”

[9:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “To whom from all of us?”

[18:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “you say only a word of lips, counsel and might for battle.” Sennacherib’s message appears to be in broken Hebrew at this point. The phrase “word of lips” refers to mere or empty talk in Prov 14:23.

[18:35]  ⁵ tn Heb “that the Lord might rescue Jerusalem from my hand?” The logic runs as follows: Since no god has ever been able to withstand the Assyrian onslaught, how can the people of Jerusalem possibly think the Lord will rescue them?

[6:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the heart of the king of Syria was stirred up over this thing.”

[6:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “servants.”

[6:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “Will you not tell me who among us [is] for the king of Israel?” The sarcastic rhetorical question expresses the king’s suspicion.

[10:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “found.”

[10:13]  ⁸ tn Or “brothers.”

[10:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “for the peace of.”

[18:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”