2 Kings 17:5

17:5 The king of Assyria marched through¹ the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.

2 Kings 2:11

2:11 As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot² pulled by fiery horses appeared.³ They went between Elijah and Elisha,⁴ and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.

2 Kings 6:24

The Lord Saves Samaria

6:24 Later King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled his entire army and attacked⁵ and besieged Samaria.⁶

2 Kings 14:11

14:11 But Amaziah would not heed the warning,⁷ so King Jehoash of Israel attacked.⁸ He and King Amaziah of Judah met face to face⁹ in Beth Shemesh of Judah.

2 Kings 15:14

15:14 Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to¹⁰ Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh.¹¹ He killed him and took his place as king.

2 Kings 16:9

16:9 The king of Assyria responded favorably to his request;¹² he¹³ attacked Damascus and captured it. He deported the people¹⁴ to Kir and executed Rezin.

2 Kings 16:12

16:12 When the king arrived back from Damascus and¹⁵ saw the altar, he approached it¹⁶ and offered a sacrifice on it.¹⁷

2 Kings 19:14

19:14 Hezekiah took the letter¹⁸ from the messengers and read it.¹⁹ Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.

2 Kings 1:9

1:9 The king²⁰ sent a captain and his fifty soldiers²¹ to retrieve Elijah.²² The captain²³ went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill.²⁴ He told him, “Prophet,²⁵ the king says, ‘Come down!’”

2 Kings 1:13

1:13 The king²⁶ sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell²⁷ 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 2:23

2:23 He went up from there to Bethel.²⁸ As he was traveling up the road, some young boys²⁹ came out of the city and made fun of him, saying, “Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!”

2 Kings 4:34-35

4:34 He got up on the bed and spread his body out over³⁰ the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s³¹ mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin³² grew warm. 4:35 Elisha³³ went back and walked around in the house.³⁴ Then he got up on the bed again³⁵ and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

2 Kings 12:10

12:10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary³⁶ and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up.³⁷

2 Kings 23:2

23:2 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud³⁸ all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 12:18

12:18 King Jehoash of Judah collected all the sacred items that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, as well as his own sacred items and all the gold that could be found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He sent it all³⁹ to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew⁴⁰ from Jerusalem.

¹tn Heb “went up against.”

²tn Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”

³tn Heb “look, a chariot of fire and horses of fire.”

⁴tn Heb “and they made a division between the two of them.”

³tn Heb “went up.”

⁴map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁴tn Heb “did not listen.”

⁵tn Heb “went up.”

⁶tn Heb “looked at each other [in the] face.”

⁵tn Heb “and came to.”

⁶tn Heb “went up from Tirzah and arrived in Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria.”

⁶tn Heb “listened to him.”

⁷tn Heb “the king of Assyria.”

⁸tn Heb “it.”

⁷tn Heb “and the king.”

⁸tn Heb “the altar.”

⁹tn Or “ascended it.”

⁸tc The MT has the plural, “letters,” but the final mem is probably dittographic (note the initial mem on the form that immediately follows). Some Greek and Aramaic witnesses have the singular.

⁹tc The MT has the plural suffix, “them,” but this probably reflects a later harmonization to the preceding textual corruption (of “letter” to “letters”). The parallel passage in Isa 37:14 has the singular suffix.

⁹tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰tn Heb “officer of fifty and his fifty.”

¹¹tn Heb “to him.”

¹²tn Heb “he”; the referent (the captain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.

¹⁴tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 10, 11, 12, 13).

¹⁰tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹tn Heb “went up and approached and kneeled.”

¹¹map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

¹²tn The word נַעַר (na’ar), here translated “boy,” can refer to a broad age range, including infants as well as young men. But the qualifying term “young” (or “small”) suggests these youths were relatively young. The phrase in question (“young boy”) occurs elsewhere in 1 Sam 20:35; 1 Kgs 3:7 (used by Solomon in an hyperbolic manner); 11:17; 2 Kgs 5:14; and Isa 11:6.

¹²tn Heb “he went up and lay down over.”

¹³tn Heb “his” (also in the next two clauses).

¹⁴tn Or perhaps, “body”; Heb “flesh.”

¹³tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”

¹⁵tn Heb “and he went up.”

¹⁴tn Heb “the king’s scribe.”

¹⁵tn Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the Lord.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to make better sense in English, since it seems more logical to count the money before bagging it (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

¹⁵tn Heb “read in their ears.”

¹⁶tn The object (“it all”) is supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁷tn Heb “went up.”