2 Kings 2:10

2:10 Elijah ¹  replied, “That’s a difficult request! ²  If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don’t, it will not happen.”

2 Kings 6:25

6:25 Samaria’s food supply ran out. ³  They laid siege to it so long that ⁴  a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver ⁵  and a quarter of a kab ⁶  of dove’s droppings ⁷  for five shekels of silver. ⁸ 

2 Kings 7:18

7:18 The prophet told the king, “Two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of finely milled flour for a shekel; this will happen about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria.”

2 Kings 17:25

17:25 When they first moved in, ⁹  they did not worship ¹⁰  the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.

2 Kings 17:32-33

17:32 At the same time they worshiped ¹¹  the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. ¹²  17:33 They were worshiping ¹³  the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.

2 Kings 18:5

18:5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; in this regard there was none like him among the kings of Judah either before or after. ¹⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “You have made difficult [your] request.”

³ tn Heb “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”

⁴ tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”

⁵ tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

⁶ sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately one quart.

⁷ tn 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.

⁸ tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

⁵ tn Heb “in the beginning of their living there.”

⁶ tn Heb “fear.”

⁷ tn Heb “feared.”

⁸ tn Heb “and they appointed for themselves from their whole people priests for the high places and they were serving for them in the house[s] of the high places.”

⁹ tn Heb “fearing.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, and those who were before him.”