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 down ²  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 God ⁴  came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Kings 9:27

9:27 When King Ahaziah of Judah saw what happened, he took off ⁵  up the road to Beth Haggan. Jehu chased him and ordered, “Shoot him too.” They shot him while he was driving his chariot up the ascent of Gur near Ibleam. ⁶  He fled to Megiddo ⁷  and died there.

2 Kings 12:9

12:9 Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of ⁸  the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 12:21

12:21 His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. ⁹  He was buried ¹⁰  with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 16:14

16:14 He moved the bronze altar that stood in the Lord’s presence from the front of the temple (between the altar and the Lord’s temple) and put it on the north side of the new ¹¹  altar.

2 Kings 16:17

16:17 King Ahaz took off the frames of the movable stands, and removed the basins from them. He took “The Sea” ¹²  down from the bronze bulls that supported it ¹³  and put it on the pavement.

2 Kings 17:36

17:36 Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; ¹⁴  bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.

2 Kings 22:5

22:5 Have them hand it over to the construction foremen ¹⁵  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it, ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 23:2

23:2 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud ¹⁷  all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 23:29

23:29 During Josiah’s reign Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt marched toward ¹⁸  the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to fight him, but Necho ¹⁹  killed him at Megiddo ²⁰  when he saw him.

2 Kings 24:12

24:12 King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered ²¹  to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, ²²  took Jehoiachin ²³  prisoner.

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

² tn 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.

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

⁴ tn 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.

⁵ tn Heb “and Ahaziah king of Judah saw and fled.”

⁶ tn After Jehu’s order (“kill him too”), the MT has simply, “to the chariot in the ascent of Gur which is near Ibleam.” The main verb in the clause, “they shot him” (וַיִּכְהוּ, vayyikhhu), has been accidentally omitted by virtual haplography/homoioteleuton. Note that the immediately preceding form הַכֻּהוּ (hakkuhu), “shoot him,” ends with the same suffix.

⁷ map For location see Map1-D4; Map2-C1; Map4-C2; Map5-F2; Map7-B1.

⁷ tn Heb “on the right side of the altar as a man enters.”

⁹ tn Heb “struck him down and he died.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “they buried him.”

¹¹ tn The word “new” is added in the translation for clarification.

¹³ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.

¹⁴ tn Heb “that [were] under it.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and outstretched arm.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “and let them give it to the doers of the work who are in the house of the Lord to repair the damages to the house.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “read in their ears.”

²¹ tn Heb “went up to.” The idiom עַל…עָלָה (’alah …’al) can sometimes mean “go up against,” but here it refers to Necho’s attempt to aid the Assyrians in their struggle with the Babylonians.

²² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Necho) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²³ map For location see Map1-D4; Map2-C1; Map4-C2; Map5-F2; Map7-B1.

²³ tn Heb “came out.”

²⁴ sn That is, the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, 597 b.c.

²⁵ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.