2 Raja-raja 5:24

5:24 When he arrived at the hill, he took them from the servants ¹  and put them in the house. Then he sent the men on their way. ² 

2 Raja-raja 13:4

13:4 Jehoahaz asked for the Lord’s mercy ³  and the Lord responded favorably, ⁴  for he saw that Israel was oppressed by the king of Syria. ⁵ 

2 Raja-raja 15:30

15:30 Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He assassinated him ⁶  and took his place as king, in the twentieth year of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah.

2 Raja-raja 23:10

23:10 The king ⁷  ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech. ⁸ 

2 Raja-raja 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ⁹  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ¹⁰  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ¹¹ 

[5:24]  ¹ tn Heb “from their hand.”

[5:24]  ² tn Heb “and he sent the men away and they went.”

[13:4]  ³ tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord.”

[13:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the Lord heard.”

[13:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “for he saw the oppression of Israel, for the king of Syria oppressed them.”

[15:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “and struck him down and killed him.”

[23:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:10]  ⁸ sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.

[24:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “In his days.”

[24:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.

[24:1]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”