2 Kings 8:11

8:11 Elisha¹ just stared at him until Hazael became uncomfortable.² Then the prophet started crying.

2 Kings 20:2

20:2 He turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,

2 Kings 8:15

8:15 The next day Hazael³ took a piece of cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over Ben Hadad’s⁴ face until he died. Then Hazael replaced him as king.

2 Kings 9:32

9:32 He looked up at the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three⁵ eunuchs looked down at him.

2 Kings 12:17

12:17 At that time King Hazael of Syria attacked⁶ Gath and captured it. Hazael then decided to attack Jerusalem.⁷

2 Kings 17:18

17:18 So the Lord was furious⁸ with Israel and rejected them;⁹ only the tribe of Judah was left.

2 Kings 24:3

24:3 Just as the Lord had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins which Manasseh had committed.¹⁰

2 Kings 24:20

24:20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence.¹¹ Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

2 Kings 13:14

Elisha Makes One Final Prophecy

13:14 Now Elisha had a terminal illness.¹² King Joash of Israel went down to visit him.¹³ He wept before him and said, “My father, my father! The chariot¹⁴ and horsemen of Israel!”¹⁵

2 Kings 13:23

13:23 But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them.¹⁶ He extended his favor to them¹⁷ because of the promise he had made¹⁸ to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.¹⁹

2 Kings 17:23

17:23 Finally²⁰ the Lord rejected Israel²¹ just as he had warned he would do²² through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

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

²tn Heb “and he made his face stand [i.e., be motionless] and set [his face?] until embarrassment.”

³tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hazael) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴tn Heb “his”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “two, three.” The narrator may be intentionally vague or uncertain here, or the two numbers may represent alternate traditions.

⁷tn Heb “went up and fought against.”

⁸tn Heb “Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.”

⁹tn Heb “very angry.”

¹⁰tn Heb “turned them away from his face.”

¹¹tn Heb “Certainly according to the word of the Lord this happened against Judah, to remove [them] from his face because of the sins of Manasseh according to all which he did.”

¹³tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the Lord this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until he threw them out from upon his face.”

¹⁵tn Heb “Now Elisha was ill with the illness by which he would die.”

¹⁶tn Heb “went down to him.”

¹⁷tn Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”

¹⁸sn By comparing Elisha to a one-man army, the king emphasizes the power of the prophetic word. See the note at 2:12.

¹⁷tn Or “showed them compassion.”

¹⁸tn Heb “he turned to them.”

¹⁹tn Heb “because of his covenant with.”

²⁰tn Heb “until now.”

¹⁹tn Heb “until.”

²⁰tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”

²¹tn Heb “just as he said.”