2 Kings 1:2

1:2 Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria¹ and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders,² “Go, ask³ Baal Zebub,⁴ the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.”

2 Kings 2:11

2:11 As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot⁵ pulled by fiery horses appeared.⁶ They went between Elijah and Elisha,⁷ and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.

2 Kings 3:19

3:19 You will defeat every fortified city and every important⁸ city. You must chop down⁹ every productive¹⁰ tree, stop up all the springs, and cover all the cultivated land with stones.”¹¹

2 Kings 4:31

4:31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha¹² he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

2 Kings 4:42

Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People

4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet¹³ – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain.¹⁴ Elisha¹⁵ said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”

2 Kings 6:11

6:11 This made the king of Syria upset.¹⁶ So he summoned his advisers¹⁷ and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.”¹⁸

2 Kings 6:25

6:25 Samaria’s food supply ran out.¹⁹ They laid siege to it so long that²⁰ a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver²¹ and a quarter of a kab²² of dove’s droppings²³ for five shekels of silver.²⁴

2 Kings 6:28

6:28 Then the king asked her, “What’s your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’

2 Kings 8:18

8:18 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter.²⁵ He did evil in the sight of²⁶ the Lord.

2 Kings 10:9-10

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? 10:10 Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the Lord announced against Ahab’s dynasty has failed to materialize. The Lord had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.”²⁷

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;²⁸ bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.

¹map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

²tn Heb “and he sent messengers and said to them.”

³tn That is, “seek an oracle from.”

⁴sn Apparently Baal Zebub refers to a local manifestation of the god Baal at the Philistine city of Ekron. The name appears to mean “Lord of the Flies,” but it may be a deliberate scribal corruption of Baal Zebul, “Baal, the Prince,” a title known from the Ugaritic texts. For further discussion and bibliography, see HALOT 261 s.v. זְבוּב בַּעַל and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 25.

⁵tn Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”

⁶tn Heb “look, a chariot of fire and horses of fire.”

⁷tn Heb “and they made a division between the two of them.”

⁹tn Heb “choice” or “select.”

¹⁰tn Elisha places the object first and uses an imperfect verb form. The stylistic shift may signal that he is now instructing them what to do, rather than merely predicting what would happen.

¹¹tn Heb “good.”

¹²tn Heb “and ruin every good portion with stones.”

¹³tn Heb “to meet him.”

¹⁷tn Heb “man of God.”

¹⁸tn 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.

¹⁹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²¹tn Heb “and the heart of the king of Syria was stirred up over this thing.”

²²tn Heb “servants.”

²³tn Heb “Will you not tell me who among us [is] for the king of Israel?” The sarcastic rhetorical question expresses the king’s suspicion.

²⁵tn Heb “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”

²⁶tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”

²⁷tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

²⁸sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately one quart.

²⁹tn The consonantal text (Kethib) reads, “dove dung” (חֲרֵייוֹנִים, khareyonim), while the marginal reading (Qere) has “discharge” (דִּבְיוֹנִים, divyonim). Based on evidence from Akkadian, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 79) suggest that “dove’s dung” was a popular name for the inedible husks of seeds.

³⁰tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

²⁹tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”

³⁰tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

³³tn Heb “Know then that there has not fallen from the word of the Lord to the ground that which the Lord spoke against the house of Ahab. The Lord has done that which he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah.”

³⁷tn Heb “and outstretched arm.”