2 Kings 8:15

8:15 The next day Hazael¹ took a piece of cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over Ben Hadad’s² face until he died. Then Hazael replaced him as king.

2 Kings 13:14

Elisha Makes One Final Prophecy

13:14 Now Elisha had a terminal illness.³ King Joash of Israel went down to visit him.⁴ He wept before him and said, “My father, my father! The chariot⁵ and horsemen of Israel!”⁶

2 Kings 15:20

15:20 Menahem got this silver by taxing all the wealthy men in Israel; he took fifty shekels of silver from each one of them and paid it to the king of Assyria.⁷ Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.

2 Kings 16:18

16:18 He also removed the Sabbath awning⁸ that had been built⁹ in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway, on account of the king of Assyria.¹⁰

2 Kings 17:21

17:21 He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king.¹¹ Jeroboam drove Israel away¹² from the Lord and encouraged them to commit a serious sin.¹³

2 Kings 19:25

19:25 ¹⁴Certainly you must have heard!¹⁵

Long ago I worked it out,

In ancient times I planned¹⁶ it;

and now I am bringing it to pass.

The plan is this:

Fortified cities will crash

into heaps of ruins.¹⁷

2 Kings 19:32

19:32 So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:

“He will not enter this city,

nor will he shoot an arrow here.¹⁸

He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors,¹⁹

nor will he build siege works against it.

2 Kings 21:11-12

21:11 “King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins.²⁰ He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols.²¹ 21:12 So this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I am about to bring disaster on Jerusalem and Judah. The news will reverberate in the ears of those who hear about it.²²

2 Kings 22:20

22:20 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace.²³ You will not have to witness²⁴ all the disaster I will bring on this place.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.

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

²tn Heb “his”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³tn Heb “Now Elisha was ill with the illness by which he would die.”

⁴tn Heb “went down to him.”

⁵tn Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”

⁶sn By comparing Elisha to a one-man army, the king emphasizes the power of the prophetic word. See the note at 2:12.

⁵tn Heb “and Menahem brought out the silver over Israel, over the prominent men of means, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver for each man.”

⁷tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term מוּסַךְ (musakh; Qere) / מִיסַךְ (misakh; Kethib) is uncertain. For discussion see HALOT 557 s.v. מוּסַךְ and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189-90.

⁸tn Heb “that they built.”

⁹sn It is doubtful that Tiglath-pileser ordered these architectural changes. Ahaz probably made these changes so he could send some of the items and materials to the Assyrian king as tribute. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 190, 193.

⁹tn Heb “and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king.”

¹⁰tc The consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the verb is נָדָא (nada’), an alternate form of נָדָה (nadah), “push away.” The marginal reading (Qere) assumes the verb נָדָח (nadakh), “drive away.”

¹¹tn Heb “a great sin.”

¹¹tn Having quoted the Assyrian king’s arrogant words in vv. 23-24, the Lord now speaks to the king.

¹²tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say.

¹³tn Heb “formed.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and it is to cause to crash into heaps of ruins fortified cities.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb תְּהִי (tÿhi) is the implied plan, referred to in the preceding lines with third feminine singular pronominal suffixes.

¹³tn Heb “there.”

¹⁴tn Heb “[with] a shield.” By metonymy the “shield” stands for the soldier who carries it.

¹⁵tn Heb “these horrible sins.”

¹⁶sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

¹⁷tn Heb “so that everyone who hears it, his two ears will quiver.”

¹⁹tn Heb “Therefore, look, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”

²⁰tn Heb “your eyes will not see.”