2 Kings 9:37

9:37 Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure on the surface of the ground in the plot of land at Jezreel. People will not be able to even recognize her.’”¹

2 Kings 13:4

13:4 Jehoahaz asked for the Lord’s mercy² and the Lord responded favorably,³ for he saw that Israel was oppressed by the king of Syria.⁴

2 Kings 18:24

18:24 Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.⁵

2 Kings 3:14

3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all ⁶ lives (whom I serve),⁷ if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah,⁸ I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you.⁹

2 Kings 4:29

4:29 Elisha¹⁰ told Gehazi, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff,¹¹ and go! Don’t stop to exchange greetings with anyone!¹² Place my staff on the child’s face.”

2 Kings 4:31

4:31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha¹³ he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

2 Kings 16:14

16:14 He moved the bronze altar that stood in the Lord’s presence from the front of the temple (between the altar and the Lord’s temple) and put it on the north side of the new¹⁴ altar.

2 Kings 23:13

23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction,¹⁵ that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.

2 Kings 23:27

23:27 The Lord announced, “I will also spurn Judah,¹⁶ just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose – both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, “I will live there.”¹⁷

2 Kings 25:19

25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five¹⁸ of the king’s advisers¹⁹ who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens²⁰ for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

¹tn Heb “so that they will not say, ‘This is Jezebel.’”

²tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord.”

³tn Heb “and the Lord heard.”

⁴tn Heb “for he saw the oppression of Israel, for the king of Syria oppressed them.”

³tn Heb “How can you turn back the face of an official [from among] the least of my master’s servants and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?” In vv. 23-24 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 21. His reasoning seems to be as follows: “In your weakened condition you obviously need military strength. Agree to the king’s terms and I will personally give you more horses than you are capable of outfitting. If I, a mere minor official, am capable of giving you such military might, just think what power the king has. There is no way the Egyptians can match our strength. It makes much better sense to deal with us.”

⁴tn Traditionally “the Lord of hosts.”

⁵tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

⁶tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”

⁷tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”

⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶tn Heb “take my staff in your hand.”

⁷tn Heb “If you meet a man, do not greet him with a blessing; if a man greets you with a blessing, do not answer.”

⁶tn Heb “to meet him.”

⁷tn The word “new” is added in the translation for clarification.

⁸sn This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mashÿkhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mashÿkhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.

⁹tn Heb “Also Judah I will turn away from my face.”

¹⁰tn Heb “My name will be there.”

¹⁰tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”

¹¹tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”

¹²tn Heb “the people of the land.”