¹tn Heb “In his days.”
²tn 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.
³tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”
⁴tn Heb “he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by the hand of his servants the prophets.”
⁵tn Heb “Certainly according to the word of the Lord this happened against Judah, to remove [them] from his face because of the sins of Manasseh according to all which he did.”
⁶tn Heb “and also the blood of the innocent which he shed, and he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.”
⁷tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
⁸tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
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¹⁰tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
¹¹tn Heb “servants.”
¹²tn Heb “went up [to] Jerusalem and the city entered into siege.”
¹³tn Heb “came out.”
¹⁴sn That is, the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, 597 b.c.
¹⁵tn Heb “and he deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; the mother of the king and the wives of the king and his eunuchs and the mighty of the land he led into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.”
¹⁶tn Heb “the entire [group], mighty men, doers of war.”
¹⁷tn Heb “his.”
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¹⁹tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
²⁰tc Some textual witnesses support the consonantal text (Kethib) in reading “Hamital.”
²¹tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
²²tn Heb “according to all which Jehoiakim had done.”
²³tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the Lord this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until he threw them out from upon his face.”