2 Kings 4:4

4:4 Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers; ¹  set aside each one when you have filled it.”

2 Kings 9:30

9:30 Jehu approached Jezreel. When Jezebel heard the news, she put on some eye liner, ²  fixed up her hair, and leaned out the window.

2 Kings 17:32

17:32 At the same time they worshiped ³  the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. ⁴ 

2 Kings 19:22

19:22 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at?

At whom have you shouted, ⁵ 

and looked so arrogantly? ⁶ 

At the Holy One of Israel! ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “all these vessels.”

² tn Heb “she fixed her eyes with antimony.” Antimony (פּוּךְ, pukh) was used as a cosmetic. The narrator portrays her as a prostitute (see Jer 4:30), a role she has played in the spiritual realm (see the note at v. 22).

³ tn Heb “feared.”

⁴ tn Heb “and they appointed for themselves from their whole people priests for the high places and they were serving for them in the house[s] of the high places.”

⁴ tn Heb “have you raised a voice.”

⁵ tn Heb “and lifted your eyes on high?”

⁶ sn This divine title pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.