2 Raja-raja 5:11

5:11 Naaman went away angry. He said, “Look, I thought for sure he would come out, stand there, invoke the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the area, and cure the skin disease.

2 Raja-raja 16:2

16:2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ¹  He did not do what pleased the Lord his God, in contrast to his ancestor David. ² 

2 Raja-raja 17:29

17:29 But each of these nations made ³  its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria ⁴  had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

2 Raja-raja 19:37

19:37 One day, ⁵  as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, ⁶  his sons ⁷  Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. ⁸  They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

[16:2]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[16:2]  ² tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord his God, like David his father.”

[17:29]  ³ sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.

[17:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.

[19:37]  ⁵ sn The assassination probably took place in 681 b.c.

[19:37]  ⁶ sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.

[19:37]  ⁷ tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions. Cf. Isa 37:38.

[19:37]  ⁸ sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.