2 Kings 1:14

1:14 Indeed, ¹  fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. ²  So now, please have respect for my life.”

2 Kings 17:25

17:25 When they first moved in, ³  they did not worship ⁴  the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.

2 Kings 4:42

Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People

4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet ⁵  – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. ⁶  Elisha ⁷  said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”

2 Kings 10:32

10:32 In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel’s territory. ⁸  Hazael attacked their eastern border. ⁹ 

2 Kings 15:37

15:37 In those days the Lord prompted King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah to attack Judah. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ¹¹  day of the twelfth month, ¹²  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ¹³  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ¹⁴  from prison.

¹ tn Heb “look.”

² tn Heb “their fifty.”

³ tn Heb “in the beginning of their living there.”

⁴ tn Heb “fear.”

⁵ tn Heb “man of God.”

⁶ tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “began to cut off Israel.”

⁸ tn Heb “Hazael struck them down in all the territory of Israel, from the Jordan on the east.” In the Hebrew text the phrase “from the Jordan on the east” begins v. 33.

⁹ tn Heb “the Lord began to send against Judah Rezin…and Pekahiah….”

¹¹ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

¹² sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

¹³ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

¹⁴ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.