2 Kings 2:16

2:16 They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord¹ may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha² replied, “Don’t send them out.”

2 Kings 2:21

2:21 He went out to the spring and threw the salt in. Then he said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have purified³ this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops.”⁴

2 Kings 3:25

3:25 They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered.⁵ They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree.

Only Kir Hareseth was left intact,⁶ but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

2 Kings 9:25-26

9:25 Jehu ordered⁷ his officer Bidkar, “Pick him up and throw him into the part of the field that once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel. Remember, you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, when the Lord pronounced this judgment on him, 9:26 ‘“Know for sure that I saw the shed blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday,” says the Lord, “and that I will give you what you deserve right here in this plot of land,”⁸ says the Lord.’ So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as the Lord said.”⁹

2 Kings 10:25

10:25 When he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Jehu ordered the royal guard¹⁰ and officers, “Come in and strike them down! Don’t let any escape!” So the royal guard and officers struck them down with the sword and left their bodies lying there.¹¹ Then they entered the inner sanctuary of the temple of Baal.¹²

2 Kings 13:21

13:21 One day some men¹³ were burying a man when they spotted¹⁴ a raiding party. So they threw the dead man¹⁵ into Elisha’s tomb. When the body¹⁶ touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man¹⁷ came to life and stood on his feet.

2 Kings 13:23

13:23 But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them.¹⁸ He extended his favor to them¹⁹ because of the promise he had made²⁰ to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.²¹

2 Kings 23:6

23:6 He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it.²² He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard.²³

2 Kings 23:12

23:12 The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. He crushed them up²⁴ and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.

¹tn Or “the spirit of the Lord.”

²tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³tn Or “healed.”

⁴tn Heb “there will no longer be from there death and miscarriage [or, ‘barrenness’].”

⁵tn Heb “and [on] every good portion they were throwing each man his stone and they filled it.” The vav + perfect (“and they filled”) here indicates customary action contemporary with the situation described in the preceding main clause (where a customary imperfect is used, “they were throwing”). See the note at 3:4.

⁶tn Heb “until he had allowed its stones to remain in Kir Hareseth.”

⁷tn Heb “said to.”

⁹tn Heb “and I will repay you in this plot of land.”

¹⁰tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord.”

¹¹tn Heb “runners.”

¹²tn Heb “and they threw.” No object appears. According to M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 116), this is an idiom for leaving a corpse unburied.

¹³tn Heb “and they came to the city of the house of Baal.” It seems unlikely that a literal city is meant. Some emend עִיר (’ir), “city,” to דְּבִיר (dÿvir) “holy place,” or suggest that עִיר is due to dittography of the immediately preceding עַד (’ad) “to.” Perhaps עִיר is here a technical term meaning “fortress” or, more likely, “inner room.”

¹³tn Heb “and it so happened [that] they.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and look, they saw.”

¹⁵tn Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹⁶tn Heb “the man.”

¹⁷tn Heb “he”; the referent (the dead man) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Otherwise the reader might think it was Elisha rather than the unnamed dead man who came back to life.

¹⁵tn Or “showed them compassion.”

¹⁶tn Heb “he turned to them.”

¹⁷tn Heb “because of his covenant with.”

¹⁸tn Heb “until now.”

¹⁷tn Heb “and he burned it in the Kidron Valley.”

¹⁸tc Heb “on the grave of the sons of the people.” Some Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses read the plural “graves.”

¹⁹tc The MT reads, “he ran from there,” which makes little if any sense in this context. Some prefer to emend the verbal form (Qal of רוּץ [ruts], “run”) to a Hiphil of רוּץ with third plural suffix and translate, “he quickly removed them” (see BDB 930 s.v. רוּץ, and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings [AB], 289). The suffix could have been lost in MT by haplography (note the mem [מ] that immediately follows the verb on the form מִשֳׁם, misham, “from there”). Another option, the one reflected in the translation, is to emend the verb to a Piel of רָצַץ (ratsats), “crush,” with third plural suffix.