2 Kings 4:31

4:31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha ¹  he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

2 Kings 4:34

4:34 He got up on the bed and spread his body out over ²  the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s ³  mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin ⁴  grew warm.

2 Kings 11:18

11:18 All the people of the land went and demolished ⁵  the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols ⁶  to bits. ⁷  They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest ⁸  then placed guards at the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 21:7

21:7 He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “to meet him.”

² tn Heb “he went up and lay down over.”

³ tn Heb “his” (also in the next two clauses).

⁴ tn Or perhaps, “body”; Heb “flesh.”

³ tn Or “tore down.”

⁴ tn Or “images.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew construction translated “smashed…to bits” is emphatic. The adverbial infinitive absolute (הֵיטֵב [hetev], “well”) accompanying the Piel form of the verb שָׁבַר (shavar), “break,” suggests thorough demolition.

⁶ tn Heb “the priest.” Jehoiada’s name is added for clarification.

⁴ tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name perpetually (or perhaps “forever”).”