2 Kings 12:1

12:1 (12:2) In Jehu’s seventh year Jehoash became king; he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem.¹ His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

2 Kings 11:21

Joash’s Reign over Judah

11:21 (12:1)² Jehoash³ was seven years old when he began to reign.

2 Kings 5:10

5:10 Elisha sent out a messenger who told him, “Go and wash seven times in the Jordan; your skin will be restored⁴ and you will be healed.”

2 Kings 5:14

5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed.⁵ His skin became as smooth as a young child’s⁶ and he was healed.

2 Kings 8:2-3

8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said.⁷ She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years. 8:3 After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field.⁸

2 Kings 16:1

Ahaz’s Reign over Judah

16:1 In the seventeenth year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah, Jotham’s son Ahaz became king over Judah.

2 Kings 3:26

3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle,⁹ he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack¹⁰ the king of Edom, but they failed.

2 Kings 4:35

4:35 Elisha¹¹ went back and walked around in the house.¹² Then he got up on the bed again¹³ and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

2 Kings 8:1

Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman

8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while,¹⁴ for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

2 Kings 13:1

Jehoahaz’s Reign over Israel

13:1 In the twenty-third year of the reign of Judah’s King Joash son of Ahaziah, Jehu’s son Jehoahaz became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria¹⁵ for seventeen years.

2 Kings 23:8

23:8 He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined¹⁶ the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba.¹⁷ He tore down the high place of the goat idols¹⁸ situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate.

¹map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

²sn Beginning with 11:21, the verse numbers through 12:21 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 11:21 ET = 12:1 HT, 12:1 ET = 12:2 HT, 12:2 ET = 12:3 HT, etc., through 12:21 ET = 12:22 HT. With 13:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

³tn Jehoash is an alternate name for Joash (see 11:2).

³tn Heb “will return to you.”

⁴tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”

⁵tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”

⁵tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”

⁶tn Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”

⁷tn Heb “and the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him.”

⁸tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”

⁸tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and he went up.”

⁹tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”

¹⁰map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

¹¹tn Heb “defiled; desecrated,” that is, “made ritually unclean and unusable.”

¹²sn These towns marked Judah’s northern and southern borders, respectively, at the time of Josiah.

¹³tc The Hebrew text reads “the high places of the gates,” which is problematic in that the rest of the verse speaks of a specific gate. The translation assumes an emendation to בָּמוֹת הַשְּׁעָרִים (bamot hashÿ’arim), “the high place of the goats” (that is, goat idols). Worship of such images is referred to in Lev 17:7 and 2 Chr 11:15. For a discussion of the textual issue, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 286-87.