2 Kings 5:13

5:13 His servants approached and said to him, “O master, ¹  if the prophet had told you to do some difficult task, ²  you would have been willing to do it. ³  It seems you should be happy that he simply said, “Wash and you will be healed.” ⁴ 

2 Kings 6:11

6:11 This made the king of Syria upset. ⁵  So he summoned his advisers ⁶  and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.” ⁷ 

2 Kings 12:21

12:21 His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. ⁸  He was buried ⁹  with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 17:23

17:23 Finally ¹⁰  the Lord rejected Israel ¹¹  just as he had warned he would do ¹²  through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

2 Kings 23:30

23:30 His servants transported his dead body ¹³  from Megiddo in a chariot and brought it to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his tomb. The people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, poured olive oil on his head, ¹⁴  and made him king in his father’s place.

2 Kings 24:2

24:2 The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets. ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “my father,” reflecting the perspective of each individual servant. To address their master as “father” would emphasize his authority and express their respect. See BDB 3 s.v. אָב and the similar idiomatic use of “father” in 2 Kgs 2:12.

² tn Heb “a great thing.”

³ tn Heb “would you not do [it]?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you would.”

⁴ tn Heb “How much more [when] he said, “Wash and be healed.” The second imperative (“be healed”) states the expected result of obeying the first (‘wash”).

⁵ tn Heb “and the heart of the king of Syria was stirred up over this thing.”

⁶ tn Heb “servants.”

⁷ tn Heb “Will you not tell me who among us [is] for the king of Israel?” The sarcastic rhetorical question expresses the king’s suspicion.

⁹ tn Heb “struck him down and he died.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “they buried him.”

¹³ tn Heb “until.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “just as he said.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “him, dead.”

¹⁸ tn Or “anointed him.”

²¹ tn Heb “he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by the hand of his servants the prophets.”