2 Kings 4:26

4:26 Now, run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?’” She told Gehazi,¹ “Everything’s fine.”

2 Kings 18:20

18:20 Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk.² In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me?

2 Kings 18:25

18:25 Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March³ up against this land and destroy it.’”’”⁴

2 Kings 19:25

19:25 ⁵Certainly you must have heard!⁶

Long ago I worked it out,

In ancient times I planned⁷ it;

and now I am bringing it to pass.

The plan is this:

Fortified cities will crash

into heaps of ruins.⁸

2 Kings 5:22

5:22 He answered, “Everything is fine.⁹ My master sent me with this message, ‘Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country.¹⁰ Please give them a talent¹¹ of silver and two suits of clothes.’”

2 Kings 8:6

8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details.¹² The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him,¹³ “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

2 Kings 13:23

13:23 But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them.¹⁴ He extended his favor to them¹⁵ because of the promise he had made¹⁶ to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.¹⁷

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.

¹tn Heb “she said.” The narrator streamlines the story at this point, omitting any reference to Gehazi running to meet her and asking her the questions.

²tn Heb “you say only a word of lips, counsel and might for battle.” Sennacherib’s message appears to be in broken Hebrew at this point. The phrase “word of lips” refers to mere or empty talk in Prov 14:23.

³tn Heb “Go.”

⁴sn In v. 25 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 22. He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commissioned Assyria as his instrument of discipline and judgment.

⁴tn Having quoted the Assyrian king’s arrogant words in vv. 23-24, the Lord now speaks to the king.

⁵tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say.

⁶tn Heb “formed.”

⁷tn Heb “and it is to cause to crash into heaps of ruins fortified cities.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb תְּהִי (tÿhi) is the implied plan, referred to in the preceding lines with third feminine singular pronominal suffixes.

⁵tn Heb “peace.”

⁶tn Heb “Look now, here, two servants came to me from the Ephraimite hill country, from the sons of the prophets.”

⁷tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 75 pounds of silver (cf. NCV, NLT, CEV).

⁶tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

⁷tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

⁷tn Or “showed them compassion.”

⁸tn Heb “he turned to them.”

⁹tn Heb “because of his covenant with.”

¹⁰tn Heb “until now.”