2 Raja-raja 3:3

3:3 Yet he persisted in ¹  the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin; he did not turn from them. ² 

2 Raja-raja 3:18

3:18 This is an easy task for the Lord; ³  he will also hand Moab over to you.

2 Raja-raja 11:1

Athaliah is Eliminated

11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line. ⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 18:6

18:6 He was loyal to ⁵  the Lord and did not abandon him. ⁶  He obeyed the commandments which the Lord had given to ⁷  Moses.

2 Raja-raja 19:21

19:21 This is what the Lord says about him: ⁸ 

“The virgin daughter Zion ⁹ 

despises you, she makes fun of you;

Daughter Jerusalem

shakes her head after you. ¹⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 20:11

20:11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord ¹¹  made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz. ¹² 

[3:3]  ¹ tn Heb “held tight,” or “clung to.”

[3:3]  ² tc The Hebrew text has the singular, “it.” Some ancient witnesses read the plural, which seems preferable since the antecedent (“sins”) is plural. Another option is to emend the plural “sins” to a singular. One ancient Greek witness has the singular “sin.”

[3:18]  ³ tn Heb “and this is easy in the eyes of the Lord.”

[11:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum) “arise,” is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.

[18:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “he hugged.”

[18:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and did not turn aside from after him.”

[18:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “had commanded.”

[19:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “this is the word which the Lord has spoken about him.”

[19:21]  ⁹ sn Zion (Jerusalem) is pictured here as a young, vulnerable daughter whose purity is being threatened by the would-be Assyrian rapist. The personification hints at the reality which the young girls of the city would face if the Assyrians conquer it.

[19:21]  ¹⁰ sn Shaking the head was a mocking gesture of derision.

[20:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:11]  ¹² tn Heb “on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.”

[20:11]  sn These steps probably functioned as a type of sundial. See HALOT 614 s.v. מַעֲלָה and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 256.