2 Kings 18:32
18:32 until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, “The
Lord will rescue us.”
2 Kings 5:19
5:19 Elisha
1 said to him, “Go in peace.”
When he had gone a short distance, 2
2 Kings 10:33
10:33 He conquered all the land of Gilead, including the territory of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh, extending all the way from the Aroer in the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan.
3
2 Kings 19:37
19:37 One day,
4 as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch,
5 his sons
6 Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword.
7 They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.
2 Kings 15:29
15:29 During Pekah’s reign over Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor,
8 Gilead, and Galilee, including all the territory of Naphtali. He deported the people
9 to Assyria.
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “and he went from him a distance of land.” The precise meaning of כִּבְרַה (kivrah) “distance,” is uncertain. See BDB 460 s.v. כִּבְרַה, and HALOT 459-60 s.v. II *כְּבָרַה, and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 65.
1 tn Heb “all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassehites, from Aroer which is near the Arnon Valley, and Gilead, and Bashan.”
1 sn The assassination probably took place in 681 b.c.
2 sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.
3 tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions. Cf. Isa 37:38.
4 sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.
1 map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.
2 tn Heb “them.”