2 Kings 1:10

1:10 Elijah replied to the captain,¹ “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down² from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Kings 1:12

1:12 Elijah replied to them,³ “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire from God⁴ came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Kings 2:3

2:3 Some members of the prophetic guild⁵ in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?”⁶ He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

2 Kings 2:5

2:5 Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

2 Kings 3:14

3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all ⁷ lives (whom I serve),⁸ if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah,⁹ I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you.¹⁰

2 Kings 5:7

5:7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill or restore life? Why does he ask me to cure a man of his skin disease?¹¹ Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!”¹²

2 Kings 9:17

9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu’s troops approaching.¹³ He said, “I see troops!”¹⁴ Jehoram ordered,¹⁵ “Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, ‘Is everything all right?’”¹⁶

2 Kings 9:25

9:25 Jehu ordered¹⁷ his officer Bidkar, “Pick him up and throw him into the part of the field that once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel. Remember, you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, when the Lord pronounced this judgment on him,

2 Kings 10:9

10:9 In the morning he went out and stood there. Then he said to all the people, “You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all of these men?

2 Kings 10:24

10:24 They went inside to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside. He had told them, “If any of the men inside get away, you will pay with your lives!”¹⁸

2 Kings 16:7

16:7 Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your dependent.¹⁹ March up and rescue me from the power²⁰ of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked²¹ me.”

2 Kings 19:23

19:23 Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master,²²

‘With my many chariots²³

I climbed up the high mountains,

the slopes of Lebanon.

I cut down its tall cedars,

and its best evergreens.

I invaded its most remote regions,²⁴

its thickest woods.

2 Kings 22:20

22:20 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace.²⁵ You will not have to witness²⁶ all the disaster I will bring on this place.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.

2 Kings 23:17

23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet²⁷ who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

¹tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”

²tn Wordplay contributes to the irony here. The king tells Elijah to “come down” (Hebrew יָרַד, yarad), but Elijah calls fire down (יָרַד) on the arrogant king’s officer.

³tc Two medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Syriac Peshitta have the singular “to him.”

⁴tn Or “intense fire.” The divine name may be used idiomatically to emphasize the intensity of the fire. Whether one translates אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) here as a proper name or idiomatically, this addition to the narrative (the name is omitted in the first panel, v. 10b) emphasizes the severity of the judgment and is appropriate given the more intense command delivered by the king to the prophet in this panel.

⁵tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”

⁶tn Heb “from your head.” The same expression occurs in v. 5.

⁷tn Traditionally “the Lord of hosts.”

⁸tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

⁹tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”

¹⁰tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”

⁹tn Heb “Am I God, killing and restoring life, that this one sends to me to cure a man from his skin disease?” In the Hebrew text this is one lengthy rhetorical question, which has been divided up in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁰tn Heb “Indeed, know and see that he is seeking an occasion with respect to me.”

¹¹tn Heb “the quantity [of the men] of Jehu, when he approached.” Elsewhere שִׁפְעַה (shif’ah), “quantity,” is used of a quantity of camels (Isa 60:6) or horses (Ezek 26:10) and of an abundance of water (Job 22:11; 38:34).

¹²tn The term שִׁפְעַת (shifat) appears to be a construct form of the noun, but no genitive follows.

¹³tn Heb “said.”

¹⁴tn Heb “Get a rider and send [him] to meet him and let him ask, ‘Is there peace?’”

¹³tn Heb “said to.”

¹⁵tn Heb “The man who escapes from the men whom I am bringing into your hands, [it will be] his life in place of his life.”

¹⁷tn Heb “son.” Both terms (“servant” and “son”) reflect Ahaz’s subordinate position as Tiglath-pileser’s subject.

¹⁸tn Heb “hand, palm.”

¹⁹tn Heb “who have arisen against.”

¹⁹tn The word is אֲדֹנָי (’adonai), “lord,” but some Hebrew mss have יְהוָה (yehvah), “Lord.”

²⁰tc The consonantal text (Kethib) has בְּרֶכֶב (bÿrekhev), but this must be dittographic (note the following רִכְבִּי [rikhbi], “my chariots”). The marginal reading (Qere) בְּרֹב (bÿrov), “with many,” is supported by many Hebrew mss and ancient versions, as well as the parallel passage in Isa 37:24.

²¹tn Heb “the lodging place of its extremity.”

²¹tn Heb “Therefore, look, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”

²²tn Heb “your eyes will not see.”

²³tn Heb “man of God.”