2 Kings 4:38

Elisha Makes a Meal Edible

4:38 Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him¹ and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire² and boil some stew for the prophets.”³

2 Kings 6:23

6:23 So he threw a big banquet⁴ for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back⁵ to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.

2 Kings 6:25

6:25 Samaria’s food supply ran out.⁶ They laid siege to it so long that⁷ a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver⁸ and a quarter of a kab⁹ of dove’s droppings¹⁰ for five shekels of silver.¹¹

2 Kings 8:4

8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s¹² servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.”

2 Kings 10:11

10:11 Then Jehu killed all who were left of Ahab’s family in Jezreel, and all his nobles, close friends, and priests. He left no survivors.

2 Kings 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you¹³ faithfully and with wholehearted devotion,¹⁴ and how I have carried out your will.”¹⁵ Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.¹⁶

2 Kings 22:4

22:4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down¹⁷ the silver that has been brought by the people to the Lord’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.

2 Kings 23:26

23:26 Yet the Lord’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.¹⁸

2 Kings 25:9

25:9 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.¹⁹

2 Kings 25:26

25:26 Then all the people, from the youngest to the oldest, as well as the army officers, left for²⁰ Egypt, because they were afraid of what the Babylonians might do.

¹tn Heb “the sons of the prophets were sitting before him.”

²tn The words “the fire” are added for clarification.

³tn Heb “sons of the prophets.”

⁴tn Or “held a great feast.”

⁵tn Heb “they went back.”

⁷tn Heb “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”

⁸tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”

⁹tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

¹⁰sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately one quart.

¹¹tn The consonantal text (Kethib) reads, “dove dung” (חֲרֵייוֹנִים, khareyonim), while the marginal reading (Qere) has “discharge” (דִּבְיוֹנִים, divyonim). Based on evidence from Akkadian, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 79) suggest that “dove’s dung” was a popular name for the inedible husks of seeds.

¹²tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

¹⁰tn Heb “man of God’s.”

¹³tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

¹⁴tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

¹⁵tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

¹⁶tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”

¹⁶tc The MT has וְיַתֵּם (vÿyattem), “and let them add up” (Hiphil of תָּמָם [tammam], “be complete”), but the appearance of הִתִּיכוּ (hitikhu), “they melted down” (Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh], “pour out”) in v. 9 suggests that the verb form should be emended to וְיַתֵּךְ (vÿyattekh), “and let him melt down” (a Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh]). For a discussion of this and other options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 281.

¹⁹tn Heb “Yet the Lord did not turn away from the fury of his great anger, which raged against Judah, on account of all the infuriating things by which Manasseh had made him angry.”

²²tn Heb “and every large house he burned down with fire.”

²⁵tn Heb “arose and went to.”