2 Kings 9:8-9
Context9:8 Ahab’s entire family will die. I 1 will cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. 2 9:9 I will make Ahab’s dynasty 3 like those of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah.
2 Kings 10:12
Context10:12 Jehu then left there and set out for Samaria. 4 While he was traveling through Beth Eked of the Shepherds,
2 Kings 10:27
Context10:27 They demolished 5 the sacred pillar of Baal and 6 the temple of Baal; it is used as 7 a latrine 8 to this very day.
2 Kings 11:3
Context11:3 He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple 9 for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
2 Kings 11:13
Context11:13 When Athaliah heard the royal guard 10 shout, she joined the crowd 11 at the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 11:16
Context11:16 They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. 12 There she was executed.
2 Kings 12:14
Context12:14 It was handed over 13 to the foremen who used it to repair the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 12:16
Context12:16 (The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the Lord’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)
2 Kings 12:20
Context12:20 His servants conspired against him 14 and murdered Joash at Beth-Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla. 15
2 Kings 19:1
Context19:1 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 19:30
Context19:30 Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit. 16
2 Kings 21:5
Context21:5 In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.


[9:8] 1 tc The LXX has the second person, “you.”
[9:8] 2 tn Heb “and I will cut off from Ahab those who urinate against a wall, [including both those who are] restrained and let free [or, ‘abandoned’] in Israel.” On the phrase וְעָצוּר וְעָזוּב (vÿ’atsur vÿ’azur, translated here “weak and incapacitated”) see the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.
[10:12] 5 tn Heb “and he arose and went and came to Samaria.”
[10:27] 7 tn Or “pulled down.”
[10:27] 8 tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.
[10:27] 9 tn Heb “and they made it into.”
[10:27] 10 tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has the hapax legomenon מַחֲרָאוֹת (makhara’ot), “places to defecate” or “dung houses” (note the related noun חרא (khr’)/חרי (khri), “dung,” HALOT 348-49 s.v. *חֲרָאִים). The marginal reading (Qere) glosses this, perhaps euphemistically, מוֹצָאוֹת (motsa’ot), “outhouses.”
[11:3] 9 tn Heb “and he was with her [in] the house of the
[11:13] 11 tc The MT reads, “and Athaliah heard the sound of the runners, the people.” The term הָעָם (ha’am), “the people,” is probably a scribal addition anticipating the reference to the people later in the verse and in v. 14.
[11:13] 12 tn Heb “she came to the people.”
[11:16] 13 tn Heb “and they placed hands on her, and she went the way of the entrance of the horses [into] the house of the king.”
[12:14] 15 tn Heb “was given.”
[12:20] 17 tn Heb “rose up and conspired [with] a conspiracy.”
[12:20] 18 tn Heb “Beth Millo which goes down [toward] Silla.”
[19:30] 19 tn Heb “The remnant of the house of Judah that is left will add roots below and produce fruit above.”