2 Kings 2:7

2:7 The fifty members of the prophetic guild went and stood opposite them at a distance, while Elijah and Elisha ¹  stood by the Jordan.

2 Kings 4:5

4:5 So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.

2 Kings 4:14

4:14 So he asked Gehazi, ²  “What can I do for her?” Gehazi replied, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”

2 Kings 4:17

4:17 The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

2 Kings 4:28

4:28 She said, “Did I ask my master for a son? Didn’t I say, ‘Don’t mislead me?’”

2 Kings 4:37

4:37 She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.

2 Kings 8:17

8:17 He was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem. ³ 

2 Kings 9:29

9:29 Ahaziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab.

2 Kings 10:35

10:35 Jehu passed away ⁴  and was buried in Samaria. ⁵  His son Jehoahaz replaced him as king.

2 Kings 13:9

13:9 Jehoahaz passed away ⁶  and was buried ⁷  in Samaria. His son Joash replaced him as king.

2 Kings 13:24

13:24 When King Hazael of Syria died, his son Ben Hadad replaced him as king.

2 Kings 14:29

14:29 Jeroboam passed away ⁸  and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. ⁹  His son Zechariah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 15:10

15:10 Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him; he assassinated him in Ibleam ¹⁰  and took his place as king.

2 Kings 17:22

17:22 The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and did not repudiate ¹¹  them.

2 Kings 20:18

20:18 ‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father ¹²  will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

2 Kings 21:2

21:2 He did evil in the sight of ¹³  the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations ¹⁴  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

2 Kings 21:26

21:26 He was buried ¹⁵  in his tomb in the garden of Uzzah, and his son Josiah replaced him as king.

¹ tn Heb “the two of them.” The referents (Elijah and Elisha) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “and he said.”

³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁴ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁵ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁵ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁶ tn Heb “and they buried him.”

⁶ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁷ tn The MT has simply “with the kings of Israel,” which appears to stand in apposition to the immediately preceding “with his fathers.” But it is likely that the words “and he was buried in Samaria” have been accidentally omitted from the text. See 13:13 and 14:16.

⁷ tc The MT reads, “and he struck him down before the people and killed him” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). However, the reading קָבָל עָם (qaval ’am), “before the people,” is problematic to some because קָבָל is a relatively late Aramaic term. Nevertheless, the Aramaic term qobel certainly antedates the writing of Kings. The bigger problem seems to be the unnecessary intrusion of an Aramaic word at all here. Most interpreters prefer to follow Lucian’s Greek version and read “in Ibleam” (בְיִבְלְעָם, bÿivle’am). Cf. NAB, TEV.

⁸ tn Heb “turn away from.”

⁹ tn Heb “Some of your sons, who go out from you, whom you father.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹¹ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

¹¹ tn Heb “he buried him.” Here “he” probably refers to Amon’s son Josiah.