2 Raja-raja 5:7
Konteks5:7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill or restore life? Why does he ask me to cure a man of his skin disease? 1 Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!” 2
2 Raja-raja 14:28
Konteks14:28 The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including all his accomplishments, his military success in restoring Israelite control over Damascus and Hamath, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 3
2 Raja-raja 16:14
Konteks16:14 He moved the bronze altar that stood in the Lord’s presence from the front of the temple (between the altar and the Lord’s temple) and put it on the north side of the new 4 altar.
2 Raja-raja 19:4
Konteks19:4 Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. 5 When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. 6 So pray for this remnant that remains.’” 7
2 Raja-raja 20:13
Konteks20:13 Hezekiah welcomed 8 them and showed them his whole storehouse, with its silver, gold, spices, and high quality olive oil, as well as his armory and everything in his treasuries. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom. 9
2 Raja-raja 23:13
Konteks23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, 10 that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.
2 Raja-raja 23:19
Konteks23:19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. 11 He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. 12
2 Raja-raja 23:24-25
Konteks23:24 Josiah also got rid of 13 the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, 14 the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, 15 and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law 16 recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple. 23:25 No king before or after repented before the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses. 17
2 Raja-raja 25:4
Konteks25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls, 18 and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. 19 They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. 20 (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. 21
[5:7] 1 tn Heb “Am I God, killing and restoring life, that this one sends to me to cure a man from his skin disease?” In the Hebrew text this is one lengthy rhetorical question, which has been divided up in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[5:7] 2 tn Heb “Indeed, know and see that he is seeking an occasion with respect to me.”
[14:28] 3 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?” The phrase “to Judah” is probably not original; it may be a scribal addition by a Judahite scribe who was trying to link Jeroboam’s conquests with the earlier achievements of David and Solomon, who ruled in Judah. The Syriac Peshitta has simply “to Israel.” M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 162) offer this proposal, but acknowledge that it is “highly speculative.”
[16:14] 4 tn The word “new” is added in the translation for clarification.
[19:4] 5 tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.”
[19:4] 6 tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the
[19:4] 7 tn Heb “and lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.”
[20:13] 8 tc Heb “listened to.” Some Hebrew
[20:13] 9 tn Heb “there was nothing which Hezekiah did not show them in his house and in all his kingdom.”
[23:13] 10 sn This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mashÿkhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mashÿkhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.
[23:19] 11 tc Heb “which the kings of Israel had made, angering.” The object has been accidentally omitted in the MT. It appears in the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate versions.
[23:19] 12 tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”
[23:19] map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
[23:24] 13 tn Here בִּעֵר (bi’er) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.
[23:24] 14 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.
[23:24] 15 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
[23:24] 16 tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”
[23:25] 17 tn Heb “and like him there was not a king before him who returned to the
[23:25] sn The description of Josiah’s devotion as involving his whole “heart, soul, and being” echoes the language of Deut 6:5.
[25:4] 18 tn Heb “the city was breached.”
[25:4] 19 tn The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense.
[25:4] 20 sn The king’s garden is mentioned again in Neh 3:15 in conjunction with the pool of Siloam and the stairs that go down from the city of David. This would have been in the southern part of the city near the Tyropean Valley which agrees with the reference to the “two walls” which were probably the walls on the eastern and western hills.
[25:4] 21 sn Heb “toward the Arabah.” The Arabah was the rift valley north and south of the Dead Sea. Here the intention was undoubtedly to escape across the Jordan to Moab or Ammon. It appears from Jer 40:14; 41:15 that the Ammonites were known to harbor fugitives from the Babylonians.
