2 Kings 6:32

6:32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders.¹ The king² sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived,³ Elisha⁴ said to the leaders,⁵ “Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?”⁶ Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.”⁷

2 Kings 7:12

7:12 The king got up in the night and said to his advisers,⁸ “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”

2 Kings 10:19

10:19 So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests.⁹ 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 them¹⁰ so he could destroy the servants of Baal.

2 Kings 12:18

12:18 King Jehoash of Judah collected all the sacred items that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, as well as his own sacred items and all the gold that could be found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He sent it all¹¹ to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew¹² from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 15:29

15:29 During Pekah’s reign over Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor,¹³ Gilead, and Galilee, including all the territory of Naphtali. He deported the people¹⁴ to Assyria.

2 Kings 18:14

18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty.¹⁵ If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.”¹⁶ So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents¹⁷ of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 18:17

18:17 The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser¹⁸ from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem,¹⁹ along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went²⁰ and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.²¹

2 Kings 22:13

22:13 “Go, seek an oracle from²² the Lord for me and the people – for all Judah. Find out about²³ the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us,²⁴ because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this scroll by doing all that it instructs us to do.”²⁵

2 Kings 25:19

25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five²⁶ of the king’s advisers²⁷ who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens²⁸ for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

2 Kings 25:23

25:23 All of the officers of the Judahite army²⁹ and their troops heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah to govern. So they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. The officers who came were Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite.

¹tn Heb “and the elders were sitting with him.”

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

³tn Heb “sent a man from before him, before the messenger came to him.”

⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “elders.”

⁶tn Heb “Do you see that this son of an assassin has sent to remove my head?”

⁷tn Heb “Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”

⁸tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 13).

¹⁵tn Heb “and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests summon to me.”

¹⁶tn Heb “acted with deception [or, ‘trickery’].”

²²tn The object (“it all”) is supplied in the translation for clarification.

²³tn Heb “went up.”

²⁹map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.

³⁰tn Heb “them.”

³⁶tn Or “I have done wrong.”

³⁷tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

³⁸tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.

⁴³sn For a discussion of these titles see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 229-30.

⁴⁴map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁴⁵tn Heb “and they went up and came.”

⁴⁶tn Heb “the field of the washer.”

⁵⁰tn Or “inquire of.”

⁵¹tn Heb “concerning.”

⁵²tn Heb “for great is the anger of the Lord which has been ignited against us.”

⁵³tn Heb “by doing all that is written concerning us.” Perhaps עָלֵינוּ (’alenu), “concerning us,” should be altered to עָלָיו (’alav), “upon it,” in which case one could translate, “by doing all that is written in it.”

⁵⁷tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”

⁵⁸tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”

⁵⁹tn Heb “the people of the land.”

⁶⁴tn Heb “of the army.” The word “Judahite” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.