2 Kings 7:2

7:2 An officer who was the king’s right-hand man¹ responded to the prophet,² “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?”³ Elisha⁴ said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”⁵

2 Kings 7:19

7:19 But the officer replied to the prophet, “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?”⁶ Elisha⁷ said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”⁸

2 Kings 10:5

10:5 So the palace supervisor,⁹ the city commissioner,¹⁰ the leaders,¹¹ and the guardians sent this message to Jehu, “We are your subjects!¹² Whatever you say, we will do. We will not make anyone king. Do what you consider proper.”¹³

2 Kings 10:10

10:10 Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the Lord announced against Ahab’s dynasty has failed to materialize. The Lord had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.”¹⁴

2 Kings 13:12

13:12 The rest of the events of Joash’s¹⁵ reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.¹⁶

2 Kings 14:15

14:15 The rest of the events of Jehoash’s¹⁷ reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.¹⁸

2 Kings 14:28

14:28 The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including all his accomplishments, his military success in restoring Israelite control over Damascus and Hamath, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.¹⁹

2 Kings 16:11

16:11 Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus.²⁰ Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus.²¹

2 Kings 18:4

18:4 He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole.²² He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time²³ the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.²⁴

2 Kings 20:20

20:20 The rest of the events of Hezekiah’s reign and all his accomplishments, including how he built a pool and conduit to bring²⁵ water into the city, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.²⁶

2 Kings 21:3

21:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky²⁷ and worshiped²⁸ them.

2 Kings 21:7

21:7 He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.²⁹

2 Kings 21:11

21:11 “King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins.³⁰ He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols.³¹

2 Kings 23:12

23:12 The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. He crushed them up³² and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 23:15

23:15 He also tore down the altar in Bethel³³ at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin.³⁴ He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole.³⁵

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.³⁶ He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel.³⁷

2 Kings 24:13

24:13 Nebuchadnezzar³⁸ 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 “the officer on whose hand the king leans.”

²tn Heb “man of God.”

³tn Heb “the Lord was making holes in the sky, could this thing be?” Opening holes in the sky would allow the waters stored up there to pour to the earth and assure a good crop. But, the officer argues, even if this were to happen, it would take a long time to grow and harvest the crop.

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

⁵tn Heb “you will not eat from there.”

⁶tn Heb “the Lord was making holes in the sky, could this thing be?” See the note at 7:2.

⁷tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸tn Heb “you will not eat from there.”

¹¹tn Heb “the one who was over the house.”

¹²tn Heb “the one who was over the city.”

¹³tn Or “elders.”

¹⁴tn Heb “servants.”

¹⁵tn Heb “Do what is good in your eyes.”

¹⁶tn Heb “Know then that there has not fallen from the word of the Lord to the ground that which the Lord spoke against the house of Ahab. The Lord has done that which he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah.”

²¹sn Jehoash and Joash are alternate forms of the same name.

²²tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Joash, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”

²⁶sn Jehoash and Joash are alternate forms of the same name.

²⁷tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoash, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”

³¹tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?” The phrase “to Judah” is probably not original; it may be a scribal addition by a Judahite scribe who was trying to link Jeroboam’s conquests with the earlier achievements of David and Solomon, who ruled in Judah. The Syriac Peshitta has simply “to Israel.” M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 162) offer this proposal, but acknowledge that it is “highly speculative.”

³⁶tn Heb “according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus.”

³⁷tn Heb “so Uriah the priest did, until the arrival of King Ahaz from Damascus.”

⁴¹tn The term is singular in the MT but plural in the LXX and other ancient versions. It is also possible to regard the singular as a collective singular, especially in the context of other plural items.

⁴²tn Heb “until those days.”

⁴³tn In Hebrew the name sounds like the phrase נְחַשׁ הַנְּחֹשֶׁת (nÿkhash hannÿkhoshet), “bronze serpent.”

⁴⁶tn Heb “and he brought.”

⁴⁷tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Hezekiah, and all his strength, and how he made a pool and a conduit and brought water to the city, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

⁵¹sn See the note at 2 Kgs 17:16.

⁵²tn Or “served.”

⁵⁶tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name perpetually (or perhaps “forever”).”

⁶¹tn Heb “these horrible sins.”

⁶²sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

⁶⁶tc The MT reads, “he ran from there,” which makes little if any sense in this context. Some prefer to emend the verbal form (Qal of רוּץ [ruts], “run”) to a Hiphil of רוּץ with third plural suffix and translate, “he quickly removed them” (see BDB 930 s.v. רוּץ, and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings [AB], 289). The suffix could have been lost in MT by haplography (note the mem [מ] that immediately follows the verb on the form מִשֳׁם, misham, “from there”). Another option, the one reflected in the translation, is to emend the verb to a Piel of רָצַץ (ratsats), “crush,” with third plural suffix.

⁷¹map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁷²tn Heb “And also the altar that is in Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin, also that altar and the high place he tore down.” The more repetitive Hebrew text is emphatic.

⁷³tn Heb “he burned the high place, crushing to dust, and he burned the Asherah pole.” High places per se are never referred to as being burned elsewhere. בָּמָה (bamah) here stands by metonymy for the combustible items located on the high place. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.

⁷⁶tc 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.

⁷⁷tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”

⁸¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Nebuchadnezzar) has been specified in the translation for clarity.