2 Kings 2:20

2:20 Elisha ¹  said, “Get me a new jar and put some salt in it.” So they got it.

2 Kings 4:23

4:23 He said, “Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon ²  or the Sabbath.” She said, “Everything’s fine.” ³ 

2 Kings 16:14

16:14 He moved the bronze altar that stood in the Lord’s presence from the front of the temple (between the altar and the Lord’s temple) and put it on the north side of the new ⁴  altar.

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 16:15

16:15 King Ahaz ordered Uriah the priest, “On the large altar ⁵  offer the morning burnt sacrifice, the evening grain offering, the royal burnt sacrifices and grain offering, the burnt sacrifice for all the people of Israel, their grain offering, and their libations. Sprinkle all the blood of the burnt sacrifice and other sacrifices on it. The bronze altar will be for my personal use.” ⁶ 

2 Kings 25:29

25:29 Jehoiachin ⁷  took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

2 Kings 6:2

6:2 Let’s go to the Jordan. Each of us will get a log from there and we will build a meeting place for ourselves there.” He said, “Go.”

2 Kings 17:28

17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. ⁸  He taught them how to worship ⁹  the Lord.

2 Kings 17:32

17:32 At the same time they worshiped ¹⁰  the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 17:41

17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

2 Kings 1:2

1:2 Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria ¹²  and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders, ¹³  “Go, ask ¹⁴  Baal Zebub, ¹⁵  the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.”

2 Kings 4:42

Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People

4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet ¹⁶  – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. ¹⁷  Elisha ¹⁸  said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”

2 Kings 17:27

17:27 So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you ¹⁹  deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” ²⁰ 

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

² sn The new moon was a time of sacrifice and special feasts (Num 28:14; 1 Sam 20:5). Apparently it was a convenient time to visit a prophet. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.

³ tn Heb “peace.”

³ tn The word “new” is added in the translation for clarification.

⁴ tn That is, the newly constructed altar.

⁵ tn Heb “for me to seek.” The precise meaning of בָּקַר (baqar), “seek,” is uncertain in this context. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189.

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁷ 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.”

⁸ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁹ tn Heb “and he sent messengers and said to them.”

¹⁰ tn That is, “seek an oracle from.”

¹¹ sn Apparently Baal Zebub refers to a local manifestation of the god Baal at the Philistine city of Ekron. The name appears to mean “Lord of the Flies,” but it may be a deliberate scribal corruption of Baal Zebul, “Baal, the Prince,” a title known from the Ugaritic texts. For further discussion and bibliography, see HALOT 261 s.v. זְבוּב בַּעַל and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 25.

⁹ tn Heb “man of God.”

¹⁰ tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.

¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tc The second plural subject may refer to the leaders of the Assyrian army. However, some prefer to read “whom I deported,” changing the verb to a first person singular form with a third masculine plural pronominal suffix. This reading has some support from Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic witnesses.

¹¹ tc Heb “and let them go and let them live there, and let him teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” The two plural verbs seem inconsistent with the preceding and following contexts, where only one priest is sent back to Samaria. The singular has the support of Greek, Syriac, and Latin witnesses.