2 Kings 3:17

3:17 for this is what the Lord says, ‘You will not feel ¹  any wind or see any rain, but this valley will be full of water and you and your cattle and animals will drink.’

2 Kings 4:10

4:10 Let’s make a small private upper room ²  and furnish it with ³  a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”

2 Kings 6:17

6:17 Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes so he can see.” The Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw that ⁴  the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

2 Kings 6:22

6:22 He replied, “Do not strike them down! You did not capture them with your sword or bow, so what gives you the right to strike them down? ⁵  Give them some food and water, so they can eat and drink and then go back to their master.”

2 Kings 8:15

8:15 The next day Hazael ⁶  took a piece of cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over Ben Hadad’s ⁷  face until he died. Then Hazael replaced him as king.

2 Kings 8:21

8:21 Joram ⁸  crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers. ⁹  The Israelite army retreated to their homeland. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 9:12

9:12 But they said, “You’re lying! Tell us what he said.” So he told them what he had said. He also related how he had said, ¹¹  “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have designated you as king over Israel.’”

2 Kings 13:3

13:3 The Lord was furious with ¹²  Israel and handed them over to ¹³  King Hazael of Syria and to Hazael’s son Ben Hadad for many years. ¹⁴ 

2 Kings 18:21

18:21 Now look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If a man leans for support on it, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him.

2 Kings 21:16

21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, ¹⁵  in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 22:20

22:20 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. ¹⁷  You will not have to witness ¹⁸  all the disaster I will bring on this place.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.

¹ tn Heb “see.”

² tn Heb “a small upper room of a wall”; according to HALOT 832 s.v. עֲלִיָּה, this refers to “a fully walled upper room.”

³ tn Heb “and let’s put there for him.”

³ tn Heb “and he saw, and look.”

⁴ tn Heb “Are [they] ones you captured with your sword or your bow (that) you can strike (them) down?”

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

⁶ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ sn Joram is a short form of the name Jehoram.

⁷ tn Heb “and he arose at night and defeated Edom, who had surrounded him, and the chariot officers.” The Hebrew text as it stands gives the impression that Joram was surrounded and launched a victorious night counterattack. It would then be quite natural to understand the last statement in the verse to refer to an Edomite retreat. Yet v. 22 goes on to state that the Edomite revolt was successful. Therefore, if the MT is retained, it may be better to understand the final statement in v. 21 as a reference to an Israelite retreat (made in spite of the success described in the preceding sentence). The translation above assumes an emendation of the Hebrew text. Adding a third masculine singular pronominal suffix to the accusative sign before Edom (reading אֶתוֹ [’eto], “him,” instead of just אֶת [’et]) and taking Edom as the subject of verbs allows one to translate the verse in a way that is more consistent with the context, which depicts an Israelite defeat, not victory. There is, however, no evidence for this emendation.

⁸ tn Heb “and the people fled to their tents.”

⁷ tn Heb “So he said, ‘Like this and like this he said to me, saying.’” The words “like this and like this” are probably not a direct quote of Jehu’s words to his colleagues. Rather this is the narrator’s way of avoiding repetition and indicating that Jehu repeated, or at least summarized, what the prophet had said to him.

⁸ tn Heb “and the anger of the Lord burned against.”

⁹ tn Heb “he gave them into the hand of.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “all the days.”

⁹ tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “Therefore, look, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”

¹¹ tn Heb “your eyes will not see.”