2 Kings 4:30

4:30 The mother of the child said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha ¹  got up and followed her back.

2 Kings 10:14

10:14 He said, “Capture them alive!” So they captured them alive and then executed all forty-two of them in the cistern at Beth Eked. He left no survivors.

2 Kings 4:17

4:17 The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

2 Kings 5:16

5:16 But Elisha ²  replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives (whom I serve), ³  I will take nothing from you.” Naaman ⁴  insisted that he take it, but he refused.

2 Kings 25:29

25:29 Jehoiachin ⁵  took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

2 Kings 2:2

2:2 Elijah told Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel.” ⁶  But Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

2 Kings 2:4

2:4 Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” ⁷  But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.

2 Kings 2:6

2:6 Elijah said to him, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they traveled on together.

2 Kings 4:16

4:16 He said, “About this time next year ⁸  you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”

2 Kings 19:16

19:16 Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to the message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God! ⁹ 

2 Kings 25:30

25:30 He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 3:14

3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all ¹¹  lives (whom I serve), ¹²  if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah, ¹³  I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you. ¹⁴ 

2 Kings 5:20

5:20 Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought, ¹⁵  “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. ¹⁶  As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.”

2 Kings 19:4

19:4 Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. ¹⁷  When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. ¹⁸  So pray for this remnant that remains.’” ¹⁹ 

2 Kings 7:12

7:12 The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, ²⁰  “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”

2 Kings 14:9

14:9 King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal ²¹  of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn. ²² 

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity. The referent must be Elisha here, since the following verse makes it clear that Gehazi had gone on ahead of them.

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

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

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

⁴ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁵ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

⁶ tn Heb “at this appointed time, at the time [when it is] reviving.” For a discussion of the second phrase see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.

⁷ tn Heb “Hear the words of Sennacherib which he sent to taunt the living God.”

⁸ tc The words “until the day he died” do not appear in the MT, but they are included in the parallel passage in Jer 52:34. Probably they have been accidentally omitted by homoioteleuton. A scribe’s eye jumped from the final vav (ו) on בְּיוֹמוֹ (bÿyomo), “in his day,” to the final vav (ו) on מוֹתוֹ (moto), “his death,” leaving out the intervening words.

⁹ tn Traditionally “the Lord of hosts.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

¹¹ tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”

¹² tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “said” (i.e., to himself).

¹¹ tn Heb “Look, my master spared this Syrian Naaman by not taking from his hand what he brought.”

¹¹ tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.”

¹² tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the Lord your God hears.”

¹³ tn Heb “and lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.”

¹² tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 13).

¹³ tn Heb “the animal of the field.”

¹⁴ sn Judah is the thorn in the allegory. Amaziah’s success has deceived him into thinking he is on the same level as the major powers in the area (symbolized by the cedar). In reality he is not capable of withstanding an attack by a real military power such as Israel (symbolized by the wild animal).