2 Kings 3:3

3:3 Yet he persisted in ¹  the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin; he did not turn from them. ² 

2 Kings 3:23

3:23 The Moabites ³  said, “It’s blood! The kings are totally destroyed! ⁴  They have struck one another down! Now, Moab, seize the plunder!”

2 Kings 4:11

4:11 One day Elisha ⁵  came for a visit; he went ⁶  into the upper room and rested. ⁷ 

2 Kings 4:18

4:18 The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers. ⁸ 

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 7:14

7:14 So they picked two horsemen and the king sent them out to track the Syrian army. ⁹  He ordered them, “Go and find out what’s going on.” ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 10:16

10:16 Jehu ¹¹  said, “Come with me and see how zealous I am for the Lord’s cause.” ¹²  So he ¹³  took him along in his chariot.

2 Kings 10:18

Jehu Executes the Prophets and Priests of Baal

10:18 Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab worshiped ¹⁴  Baal a little; Jehu will worship ¹⁵  him with great devotion. ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 10:32

10:32 In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel’s territory. ¹⁷  Hazael attacked their eastern border. ¹⁸ 

2 Kings 12:15

12:15 They did not audit the treasurers who disbursed ¹⁹  the funds to the foremen, for they were honest. ²⁰ 

2 Kings 17:14

17:14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, ²¹  who had not trusted the Lord their God.

2 Kings 17:22

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

2 Kings 18:6

18:6 He was loyal to ²³  the Lord and did not abandon him. ²⁴  He obeyed the commandments which the Lord had given to ²⁵  Moses.

2 Kings 19:33

19:33 He will go back the way he came.

He will not enter this city,” says the Lord.

2 Kings 19:36

19:36 So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh. ²⁶ 

2 Kings 25:12

25:12 But he ²⁷  left behind some of the poor of the land and gave them fields and vineyards.

¹ tn Heb “held tight,” or “clung to.”

² tc The Hebrew text has the singular, “it.” Some ancient witnesses read the plural, which seems preferable since the antecedent (“sins”) is plural. Another option is to emend the plural “sins” to a singular. One ancient Greek witness has the singular “sin.”

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

⁴ tn The translation assumes the verb is חָרַב (kharav, “to be desolate”). The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb form for emphasis. (For another example of the Hophal infinitive with a Niphal finite verb, see Lev 19:20. Cf. also IBHS 582 §35.2.1c.) Some prefer to derive the verb from a proposed homonym meaning “at HALOT 349 s.v. II חרב and BDB 352 s.v. חָרְבָה).

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

⁶ tn Heb “turned aside.”

⁷ tn Or “slept there.”

⁷ tn Heb “to his father, to the harvesters.”

⁹ tn Heb “and the king sent [them] after the Syrian camp.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “Go and see.”

¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn Heb “and see my zeal for the Lord.”

¹³ tc The MT has a plural form, but this is most likely an error. The LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate all have the singular.

¹³ tn Or “served.

¹⁴ tn Or “serve.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “much” or “greatly.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “began to cut off Israel.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “Hazael struck them down in all the territory of Israel, from the Jordan on the east.” In the Hebrew text the phrase “from the Jordan on the east” begins v. 33.

¹⁷ tn Heb “gave.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “and they did not conduct a reckoning of the men who gave the silver into their hand to give to the doers of the work, for in honesty they were working.”

¹⁹ tn Heb and they stiffened their neck like the neck of their fathers.”

²¹ tn Heb “turn away from.”

²³ tn Heb “he hugged.”

²⁴ tn Heb “and did not turn aside from after him.”

²⁵ tn Heb “had commanded.”

²⁵ tn Heb “and Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned and lived in Nineveh.”

²⁷ tn Heb “the captain of the royal guard.” However, the subject is clear from the preceding and contemporary English style would normally avoid repeating the proper name and title.