2 Raja-raja 11:3

11:3 He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple ¹  for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

2 Raja-raja 17:5

17:5 The king of Assyria marched through ²  the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.

2 Raja-raja 25:3

25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month ³  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ⁴  had no food.

[11:3]  ¹ tn Heb “and he was with her [in] the house of the Lord hiding.”

[17:5]  ² tn Heb “went up against.”

[25:3]  ³ tn The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.

[25:3]  sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

[25:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “the people of the land.”