2 Raja-raja 15:10

15:10 Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him; he assassinated him in Ibleam ¹  and took his place as king.

2 Raja-raja 15:14

15:14 Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to ²  Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh. ³  He killed him and took his place as king.

2 Raja-raja 15:30

15:30 Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He assassinated him ⁴  and took his place as king, in the twentieth year of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah.

2 Raja-raja 25:21

25:21 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed ⁵  at Riblah in the territory ⁶  of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.

2 Raja-raja 15:25

15:25 His officer Pekah son of Remaliah conspired against him. He and fifty Gileadites assassinated Pekahiah, as well as Argob and Arieh, in Samaria in the fortress of the royal palace. ⁷  Pekah then took his place as king.

2 Raja-raja 12:21

12:21 His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. ⁸  He was buried ⁹  with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

2 Raja-raja 18:21

18:21 Now look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If a man leans for support on it, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him.

2 Raja-raja 25:25

25:25 But in the seventh month ¹⁰  Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, ¹¹  came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, ¹²  as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.

[15:10]  ¹ tc The MT reads, “and he struck him down before the people and killed him” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). However, the reading קָבָל עָם (qaval ’am), “before the people,” is problematic to some because קָבָל is a relatively late Aramaic term. Nevertheless, the Aramaic term qobel certainly antedates the writing of Kings. The bigger problem seems to be the unnecessary intrusion of an Aramaic word at all here. Most interpreters prefer to follow Lucian’s Greek version and read “in Ibleam” (בְיִבְלְעָם, bÿivle’am). Cf. NAB, TEV.

[15:14]  ² tn Heb “and came to.”

[15:14]  ³ tn Heb “went up from Tirzah and arrived in Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria.”

[15:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “and struck him down and killed him.”

[25:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”

[25:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “land.”

[15:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he struck him down in Samaria in the fortress of the house of the king, Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men from the sons of the Gileadites, and they killed him.”

[15:25]  sn The precise identity of Argob and Arieh, as well as their relationship to the king, are uncertain. The usual assumption is that they were officials assassinated along with Pekahiah, or that they were two of the more prominent Gileadites involved in the revolt. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 173.

[12:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “struck him down and he died.”

[12:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “they buried him.”

[25:25]  ¹⁰ sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; Jer 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; Jer 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (Jer 40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (Jer 52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).

[25:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”

[25:25]  ¹² tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”