2 Kings 1:2

1:2 Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria 1  and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders, 2  “Go, ask 3  Baal Zebub, 4  the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.”

2 Kings 3:14

3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all 5  lives (whom I serve), 6  if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah, 7  I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you. 8 

2 Kings 5:17

5:17 Naaman said, “If not, then please give your servant a load of dirt, enough for a pair of mules to carry, 9  for your servant will never again offer a burnt offering or sacrifice to a god other than the Lord. 10 

2 Kings 6:11

6:11 This made the king of Syria upset. 11  So he summoned his advisers 12  and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.” 13 

2 Kings 8:8

8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift 14  and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, 15  ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Kings 16:7

16:7 Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your dependent. 16  March up and rescue me from the power 17  of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked 18  me.”

2 Kings 19:20

19:20 Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria. 19 

2 Kings 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you 20  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, 21  and how I have carried out your will.” 22  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. 23 

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

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

3 tn That is, “seek an oracle from.”

4 sn 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.

5 tn Traditionally “the Lord of hosts.”

6 tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

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

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

9 tn Heb “and [if] not, may there be given to your servant a load [for] a pair of mules, earth.”

10 tn Heb “for your servant will not again make a burnt offering and sacrifice to other gods, only to the Lord.”

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

14 tn Heb “servants.”

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

17 tn The Hebrew text also has “in your hand.”

18 tn Heb “Inquire of the Lord through him, saying.”

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

22 tn Heb “hand, palm.”

23 tn Heb “who have arisen against.”

25 tn Heb “That which you prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.” The verb “I have heard” does not appear in the parallel passage in Isa 37:21, where אֲשֶׁר (’asher) probably has a causal sense, “because.”

29 tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

30 tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

31 tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

32 tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”