2 Raja-raja 6:15

6:15 The prophet’s ¹  attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha, ²  “Oh no, my master! What will we do?”

2 Raja-raja 6:26

6:26 While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him, “Help us, my master, O king!”

2 Raja-raja 25:1

25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside ³  it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. ⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ⁵  day of the twelfth month, ⁶  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁷  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ⁸  from prison.

[6:15]  ¹ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

[6:15]  ² tn Heb “his young servant said to him.”

[25:1]  ³ tn Or “against.”

[25:1]  ⁴ sn This would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

[25:27]  ⁵ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

[25:27]  ⁶ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[25:27]  ⁸ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.