2 Kings 6:25

6:25 Samaria’s food supply ran out. ¹  They laid siege to it so long that ²  a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver ³  and a quarter of a kab ⁴  of dove’s droppings ⁵  for five shekels of silver. ⁶ 

2 Kings 18:28

18:28 The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, ⁷  “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ⁸  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ⁹  and how I have carried out your will.” ¹⁰  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ¹¹ 

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. ¹² 

2 Kings 25:26

25:26 Then all the people, from the youngest to the oldest, as well as the army officers, left for ¹³  Egypt, because they were afraid of what the Babylonians might do.

2 Kings 3:27

3:27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel, ¹⁴  so they broke off the attack ¹⁵  and returned to their homeland.

2 Kings 5:1

Elisha Heals a Syrian General

5:1 Now Naaman, the commander of the king of Syria’s army, was esteemed and respected by his master, ¹⁶  for through him the Lord had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease. ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 5:13

5:13 His servants approached and said to him, “O master, ¹⁸  if the prophet had told you to do some difficult task, ¹⁹  you would have been willing to do it. ²⁰  It seems you should be happy that he simply said, “Wash and you will be healed.” ²¹ 

2 Kings 7:6

7:6 The Lord had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!”

2 Kings 17:36

17:36 Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; ²²  bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.

2 Kings 23:2

23:2 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud ²³  all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 10:19

10:19 So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. ²⁴  None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of them who fail to appear will lose their lives.” But Jehu was tricking them ²⁵  so he could destroy the servants of Baal.

¹ tn Heb “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”

² tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”

³ tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

⁴ sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately one quart.

⁵ tn 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.

⁶ tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

⁷ tn The Hebrew text also has, “and he spoke and said.”

¹³ tn 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.

¹⁴ tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

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

¹⁶ tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “and every large house he burned down with fire.”

²⁵ tn Heb “arose and went to.”

³¹ tn Heb “there was great anger against Israel.”

³² tn Heb “they departed from him.”

³⁷ tn Heb “was a great man before his master and lifted up with respect to the face.”

³⁸ tn For a discussion of מְצֹרָע (mÿtsora’), traditionally translated “leprous,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 63. Naaman probably had a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy/Hansen’s disease.

⁴³ 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.

⁴⁴ tn Heb “a great thing.”

⁴⁵ tn Heb “would you not do [it]?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you would.”

⁴⁶ 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”).

⁴⁹ tn Heb “and outstretched arm.”

⁵⁵ tn Heb “read in their ears.”

⁶¹ tn Heb “and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests summon to me.”

⁶² tn Heb “acted with deception [or, ‘trickery’].”