2 Kings 2:8

2:8 Elijah took his cloak, folded it up, and hit the water with it. The water divided, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

2 Kings 4:22

4:22 She called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”

2 Kings 6:13

6:13 The king¹ ordered, “Go, find out where he is, so I can send some men to capture him.”² The king was told, “He is in Dothan.”

2 Kings 6:18

6:18 As they approached him,³ Elisha prayed to the Lord, “Strike these people⁴ with blindness.”⁵ The Lord⁶ struck them with blindness as Elisha requested.⁷

2 Kings 13:18

13:18 Then Elisha⁸ said, “Take the arrows,” and he did so.⁹ He told the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” He struck the ground three times and stopped.

2 Kings 17:25

17:25 When they first moved in,¹⁰ they did not worship¹¹ the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.

2 Kings 23:10

23:10 The king¹² ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech.¹³

¹tn Heb “he” (also a second time in this verse); the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²tn Heb “Go and see where he [is] so I can send and take him.”

¹tn Heb “and they came down to him.”

²tn Or “this nation,” perhaps emphasizing the strength of the Syrian army.

³tn On the basis of the Akkadian etymology of the word, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 74) translate “blinding light.” HALOT 761 s.v. סַנְוֵרִים suggests the glosses “dazzling, deception.”

⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “according to the word of Elisha.”

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

²tn Heb “and he took [them].”

¹tn Heb “in the beginning of their living there.”

²tn Heb “fear.”

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

²sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.