2 Kings 5:15

5:15 He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman¹ came and stood before him. He said, “For sure² I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.”

2 Kings 7:13

7:13 One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!)³ Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.”⁴

2 Kings 8:6

8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details.⁵ The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him,⁶ “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

2 Kings 10:9

10:9 In the morning he went out and stood there. Then he said to all the people, “You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all of these men?

2 Kings 10:21

10:21 Jehu sent invitations throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one was absent. They arrived at the temple of Baal and filled it up from end to end.⁷

2 Kings 12:4

12:4 Jehoash said to the priests, “I place at your disposal⁸ all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the Lord’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax,⁹ the silver received from those who have made vows,¹⁰ and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the Lord’s temple.¹¹

2 Kings 14:14

14:14 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages.¹² Then he went back to Samaria.¹³

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2 Kings 15:16

15:16 At that time Menahem came from Tirzah and attacked Tiphsah. He struck down all who lived in the city and the surrounding territory, because they would not surrender.¹⁴ He even ripped open the pregnant women.

2 Kings 17:16

17:16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky,¹⁵ and worshiped¹⁶ Baal.

2 Kings 21:8

21:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors,¹⁷ provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law my servant Moses ordered them to obey.”

2 Kings 23:19

23:19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord.¹⁸ He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel.¹⁹

2 Kings 24:13

24:13 Nebuchadnezzar²⁰ took from there all the riches in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace. He removed all the gold items which King Solomon of Israel had made for the Lord’s temple, just as the Lord had warned.

¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²tn Heb “look.”

³tn Heb “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.” The MT is dittographic here; the words “that remain in it. Look they are like all the people of Israel” have been accidentally repeated. The original text read, “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.”

⁴tn Heb “and let us send so we might see.”

⁵tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

⁶tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

⁷tn Heb “and the house of Baal was filled mouth to mouth.”

⁹tn The words “I place at your disposal” are added in the translation for clarification.

¹⁰tn Heb “the silver of passing over a man.” The precise meaning of the phrase is debated, but עָבַר (’avar), “pass over,” probably refers here to counting, suggesting the reference is to a census conducted for taxation purposes. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.

¹¹tn Heb “the silver of persons, his valuation.” The precise meaning of the phrase is uncertain, but parallels in Lev 27 suggest that personal vows are referred to here. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.

¹²tn Heb “all the silver which goes up on the heart of a man to bring to the house of the Lord.”

¹¹tn Heb “the sons of the pledges.”

¹²map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

¹³tn Heb “then Menahem attacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its borders from Tirzah, for it would not open, and he attacked.”

¹⁵tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

¹⁶tn Or “served.”

¹⁷tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I gave to their fathers.”

¹⁹tc Heb “which the kings of Israel had made, angering.” The object has been accidentally omitted in the MT. It appears in the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate versions.

²⁰tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”

²¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Nebuchadnezzar) has been specified in the translation for clarity.