2 Raja-raja 14:5

14:5 When he had secured control of the kingdom, ¹  he executed the servants who had assassinated his father. ² 

2 Raja-raja 14:2

14:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ³  His mother ⁴  was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.

2 Raja-raja 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ⁵  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ⁶  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ⁷ 

2 Raja-raja 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ⁸  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ⁹  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ¹⁰ 

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 ¹¹  day of the twelfth month, ¹²  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ¹³  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ¹⁴  from prison.

2 Raja-raja 1:1

Elijah Confronts the King and His Commanders

1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. ¹⁵ 

[14:5]  ¹ tn Heb “when the kingdom was secure in his hand.”

[14:5]  ² tn Heb “he struck down his servants, the ones who had struck down the king, his father.”

[14:2]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[14:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

[24:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “In his days.”

[24:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.

[24:1]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”

[24:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “In his days.”

[24:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.

[24:1]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”

[25:27]  ¹¹ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

[25:27]  ¹² sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:27]  ¹³ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[25:27]  ¹⁴ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.

[1:1]  ¹⁵ sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22.