2 Kings 5:27

5:27 Therefore Naaman’s skin disease will afflict ¹  you and your descendants forever!” When Gehazi ²  went out from his presence, his skin was as white as snow. ³ 

2 Kings 11:1

Athaliah is Eliminated

11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line. ⁴ 

2 Kings 17:20

17:20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated ⁵  them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.

2 Kings 25:25

25:25 But in the seventh month ⁶  Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, ⁷  came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, ⁸  as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.

¹ tn Heb “cling to.”

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Traditionally, “he went from before him, leprous like snow.” But see the note at 5:1, as well as M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 66.

⁴ tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum) “arise,” is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.

⁷ tn Or “afflicted.”

¹⁰ sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; Jer 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; Jer 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (Jer 40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (Jer 52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).

¹¹ tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”

¹² tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”