2 Kings 3:13

3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here?¹ Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”

2 Kings 7:13

7:13 One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!)² Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.”³

2 Kings 9:6

9:6 So Jehu⁴ got up and went inside. Then the prophet⁵ poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I have designated you as king over the Lord’s people Israel.

2 Kings 10:31

10:31 But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the Lord God of Israel.⁶ He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit.⁷

2 Kings 13:14

Elisha Makes One Final Prophecy

13:14 Now Elisha had a terminal illness.⁸ King Joash of Israel went down to visit him.⁹ He wept before him and said, “My father, my father! The chariot¹⁰ and horsemen of Israel!”¹¹

2 Kings 14:25

14:25 He restored the border of Israel from Lebo Hamath in the north to the sea of the Arabah in the south,¹² in accordance with the word of the Lord God of Israel announced through¹³ his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

2 Kings 17:21

17:21 He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king.¹⁴ Jeroboam drove Israel away¹⁵ from the Lord and encouraged them to commit a serious sin.¹⁶

2 Kings 17:23

17:23 Finally¹⁷ the Lord rejected Israel¹⁸ just as he had warned he would do¹⁹ through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

¹tn Or “What do we have in common?” The text reads literally, “What to me and to you?”

²tn Heb “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.” The MT is dittographic here; the words “that remain in it. Look they are like all the people of Israel” have been accidentally repeated. The original text read, “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.”

³tn Heb “and let us send so we might see.”

³tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

⁴tn Heb “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart.”

⁵tn Heb “He did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to commit.”

⁵tn Heb “Now Elisha was ill with the illness by which he would die.”

⁶tn Heb “went down to him.”

⁷tn Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”

⁸sn By comparing Elisha to a one-man army, the king emphasizes the power of the prophetic word. See the note at 2:12.

⁶tn The phrases “in the north” and “in the south” are added in the translation for clarification.

⁷tn Heb “which he spoke by the hand of.”

⁷tn Heb “and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king.”

⁸tc The consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the verb is נָדָא (nada’), an alternate form of נָדָה (nadah), “push away.” The marginal reading (Qere) assumes the verb נָדָח (nadakh), “drive away.”

⁹tn Heb “a great sin.”

⁸tn Heb “until.”

⁹tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”

¹⁰tn Heb “just as he said.”