[java] Explicitly assigning values to a 2D Array?

I've never done this before and can't find the answer. This may not be the correct data type to use for this, but I just want to assign an int, then another int without a for loop into a 2D array, the values will actual be returns from another function, but for simplicity I've just used int i and k, this is how I thought you'd do it, but its not:

int contents[][] = new int[2][2];
            contents[0][0] = {int i, int k}
            contents[1][1] = {int i, int k}
            contents[2][2] = {int i, int k}

TIA - feel free to point me in the direction of a better data struct to do this if I'm barking up the wrong tree.