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 purified ¹  this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops.” ² 

2 Kings 4:39

4:39 Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine. ³  He picked some of its fruit, ⁴  enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices ⁵  into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful. ⁶ 

2 Kings 6:15

6:15 The prophet’s ⁷  attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha, ⁸  “Oh no, my master! What will we do?”

2 Kings 9:21

9:21 Jehoram ordered, “Hitch up my chariot.” ⁹  When his chariot had been hitched up, ¹⁰  King Jehoram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah went out in their respective chariots ¹¹  to meet Jehu. They met up with him ¹²  in the plot of land that had once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel.

2 Kings 10:9

10:9 In the morning he went out and stood there. Then he said to all the people, “You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all of these men?

2 Kings 15:20

15:20 Menahem got this silver by taxing all the wealthy men in Israel; he took fifty shekels of silver from each one of them and paid it to the king of Assyria. ¹³  Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.

2 Kings 19:35

19:35 That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they ¹⁴  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. ¹⁵ 

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. ¹⁶  He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard. ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 24:12

24:12 King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered ¹⁸  to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, ¹⁹  took Jehoiachin ²⁰  prisoner.

¹ tn Or “healed.”

² tn Heb “there will no longer be from there death and miscarriage [or, ‘barrenness’].”

³ tn Heb “a vine of the field.”

⁴ tn Heb “[some] of the gourds of the field.”

⁵ tn Heb “he came and cut [them up].”

⁶ tc The Hebrew text reads, “for they did not know” (יָדָעוּ, yada’u) but some emend the final shureq (וּ, indicating a third plural subject) to holem vav (וֹ, a third masculine singular pronominal suffix on a third singular verb) and read “for he did not know it.” Perhaps it is best to omit the final vav as dittographic (note the vav at the beginning of the next verb form) and read simply, “for he did not know.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.

⁵ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

⁶ tn Heb “his young servant said to him.”

⁷ tn The words “my chariot” are added for clarification.

⁸ tn Heb “and he hitched up his chariot.”

⁹ tn Heb “each in his chariot and they went out.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “they found him.”

⁹ tn Heb “and Menahem brought out the silver over Israel, over the prominent men of means, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver for each man.”

¹¹ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

¹² tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies.”

¹³ tn Heb “and he burned it in the Kidron Valley.”

¹⁴ tc Heb “on the grave of the sons of the people.” Some Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses read the plural “graves.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “came out.”

¹⁶ sn That is, the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, 597 b.c.

¹⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.