2 Kings 1:13

1:13 The king ¹  sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell ²  on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, “Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

2 Kings 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 Kings 8:9

8:9 So Hazael went to visit Elisha. ³  He took along a gift, ⁴  as well as ⁵  forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said, “Your son, ⁶  King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question, ⁷  ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Kings 8:12

8:12 Hazael asked, “Why are you crying, my master?” He replied, “Because I know the trouble you will cause the Israelites. You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, smash their children to bits, and rip open their pregnant women.”

2 Kings 10:30

10:30 The Lord said to Jehu, “You have done well. You have accomplished my will and carried out my wishes with regard to Ahab’s dynasty. Therefore four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” ⁸ 

2 Kings 15:25

15:25 His officer Pekah son of Remaliah conspired against him. He and fifty Gileadites assassinated Pekahiah, as well as Argob and Arieh, in Samaria in the fortress of the royal palace. ⁹  Pekah then took his place as king.

2 Kings 18:22

18:22 Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.’

2 Kings 22:9

22:9 Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, ¹⁰  “Your servants melted down the silver in the temple ¹¹  and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple.”

2 Kings 23:5

23:5 He eliminated ¹²  the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to offer sacrifices ¹³  on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the area right around Jerusalem. (They offered sacrifices ¹⁴  to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the constellations, and all the stars in the sky.)

2 Kings 25:4

25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls, ¹⁵  and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. ¹⁶  They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. ¹⁷  (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. ¹⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “went up and approached and kneeled.”

³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn The Hebrew text also has “in his hand.”

⁵ tn Heb “and.” It is possible that the conjunction is here explanatory, equivalent to English “that is.” In this case the forty camel loads constitute the “gift” and one should translate, “He took along a gift, consisting of forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus.”

⁶ sn The words “your son” emphasize the king’s respect for the prophet.

⁷ tn Heb “saying.”

⁵ tn Heb “Because you have done well by doing what is proper in my eyes – according to all which was in my heart you have done to the house of Ahab – sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.” In the Hebrew text the Lord’s statement is one long sentence (with a parenthesis). The translation above divides it into shorter sentences for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn Heb “and he struck him down in Samaria in the fortress of the house of the king, Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men from the sons of the Gileadites, and they killed him.”

⁹ tn Heb “returned the king a word and said.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “that was found in the house.”

¹¹ tn Perhaps, “destroyed.”

¹² tn Or “burn incense.”

¹³ tn Or “burned incense.”

¹³ tn Heb “the city was breached.”

¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense.

¹⁵ sn The king’s garden is mentioned again in Neh 3:15 in conjunction with the pool of Siloam and the stairs that go down from the city of David. This would have been in the southern part of the city near the Tyropean Valley which agrees with the reference to the “two walls” which were probably the walls on the eastern and western hills.

¹⁶ sn Heb “toward the Arabah.” The Arabah was the rift valley north and south of the Dead Sea. Here the intention was undoubtedly to escape across the Jordan to Moab or Ammon. It appears from Jer 40:14; 41:15 that the Ammonites were known to harbor fugitives from the Babylonians.