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 Lord ¹  may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha ²  replied, “Don’t send them out.”

2 Kings 3:14

3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all ³  lives (whom I serve), ⁴  if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah, ⁵  I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you. ⁶ 

2 Kings 5:1

Elisha Heals a Syrian General

5:1 Now Naaman, the commander of the king of Syria’s army, was esteemed and respected by his master, ⁷  for through him the Lord had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease. ⁸ 

2 Kings 5:23

5:23 Naaman said, “Please accept two talents of silver. ⁹  He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 9:26

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,” ¹¹  says the Lord.’ So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as the Lord said.” ¹² 

2 Kings 19:4

19:4 Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. ¹³  When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. ¹⁴  So pray for this remnant that remains.’” ¹⁵ 

2 Kings 20:17

20:17 ‘Look, a time is ¹⁶  coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.

2 Kings 25:13

25:13 The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the Lord’s temple, as well as the movable stands and the big bronze basin called the “The Sea.” ¹⁷  They took the bronze to Babylon.

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ¹⁸  day of the twelfth month, ¹⁹  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ²⁰  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ²¹  from prison.

¹ tn Or “the spirit of the Lord.”

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

³ tn Traditionally “the Lord of hosts.”

⁴ tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

⁵ tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”

⁶ tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”

⁵ tn Heb “was a great man before his master and lifted up with respect to the face.”

⁶ tn For a discussion of מְצֹרָע (mÿtsora’), traditionally translated “leprous,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 63. Naaman probably had a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy/Hansen’s disease.

⁷ tn Heb “Be resolved and accept two talents.”

⁸ tn Heb “before him.”

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

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

¹¹ tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.”

¹² tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the Lord your God hears.”

¹³ tn Heb “and lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.”

¹³ tn Heb “days are.”

¹⁵ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.

¹⁷ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

¹⁸ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

¹⁹ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

²⁰ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.