2 Kings 1:10

1:10 Elijah replied to the captain, ¹  “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down ²  from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Kings 1:12

1:12 Elijah replied to them, ³  “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire from God ⁴  came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Kings 2:2

2:2 Elijah told Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel.” ⁵  But Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

2 Kings 2:9

2:9 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “What can I do for you, ⁶  before I am taken away from you?” Elisha answered, “May I receive a double portion of the prophetic spirit that energizes you.” ⁷ 

2 Kings 2:21

2:21 He went out to the spring and threw the salt in. Then he said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have purified ⁸  this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops.” ⁹ 

2 Kings 3:9

3:9 So the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom ¹⁰  set out together. They wandered around on the road for seven days and finally ran out of water for the men and animals they had with them.

2 Kings 5:23

5:23 Naaman said, “Please accept two talents of silver. ¹¹  He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi. ¹² 

2 Kings 6:23

6:23 So he threw a big banquet ¹³  for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back ¹⁴  to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.

2 Kings 6:33

6:33 He was still talking to them when ¹⁵  the messenger approached ¹⁶  and said, “Look, the Lord is responsible for this disaster! ¹⁷  Why should I continue to wait for the Lord to help?”

2 Kings 9:7

9:7 You will destroy the family of your master Ahab. ¹⁸  I will get revenge against Jezebel for the shed blood of my servants the prophets and for the shed blood of all the Lord’s servants. ¹⁹ 

2 Kings 9:19

9:19 So he sent a second horseman out to them ²⁰  and he said, “This is what the king says, ‘Is everything all right?’” ²¹  Jehu replied, “None of your business! Follow me.”

2 Kings 9:36

9:36 When they went back and told him, he said, “The Lord’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, ²²  ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.

2 Kings 11:11

11:11 The royal bodyguard ²³  took their stations, each holding his weapon in his hand. They lined up from the south side of the temple to the north side and stood near the altar and the temple, surrounding the king. ²⁴ 

2 Kings 14:10

14:10 You thoroughly defeated Edom ²⁵  and it has gone to your head! ²⁶  Gloat over your success, ²⁷  but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” ²⁸ 

2 Kings 17:29

17:29 But each of these nations made ²⁹  its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria ³⁰  had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

2 Kings 17:34

17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship ³¹  the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave ³²  the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

2 Kings 18:30

18:30 Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord when he says, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”

2 Kings 21:13

21:13 I will destroy Jerusalem the same way I did Samaria ³³  and the dynasty of Ahab. ³⁴  I will wipe Jerusalem clean, just as one wipes a plate on both sides. ³⁵ 

[1:10]  ¹ tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”

[1:10]  ² tn Wordplay contributes to the irony here. The king tells Elijah to “come down” (Hebrew יָרַד, yarad), but Elijah calls fire down (יָרַד) on the arrogant king’s officer.

[1:12]  ³ tc Two medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Syriac Peshitta have the singular “to him.”

[1:12]  ⁴ tn Or “intense fire.” The divine name may be used idiomatically to emphasize the intensity of the fire. Whether one translates אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) here as a proper name or idiomatically, this addition to the narrative (the name is omitted in the first panel, v. 10b) emphasizes the severity of the judgment and is appropriate given the more intense command delivered by the king to the prophet in this panel.

[2:2]  ⁵ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[2:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “Ask! What can I do for you….?”

[2:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “May a double portion of your spirit come to me.”

[2:21]  ⁹ tn Or “healed.”

[2:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “there will no longer be from there death and miscarriage [or, ‘barrenness’].”

[3:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the king of Israel and the king of Judah and the king of Edom.”

[5:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “Be resolved and accept two talents.”

[5:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “before him.”

[6:23]  ¹⁵ tn Or “held a great feast.”

[6:23]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “they went back.”

[6:33]  ¹⁷ tn The Hebrew text also has “look” here.

[6:33]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “came down to him.”

[6:33]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Look, this is a disaster from the Lord.”

[9:7]  ¹⁹ tn Or “strike down the house of Ahab your master.”

[9:7]  ²⁰ tn Heb “I will avenge the shed blood of my servants the prophets and the shed blood of all the servants of the Lord from the hand of Jezebel.”

[9:19]  ²¹ tn Heb “and he came to them.”

[9:19]  ²² tc The MT has simply “peace,” omitting the prefixed interrogative particle. It is likely that the particle has been accidentally omitted; several ancient witnesses include it or assume its presence.

[9:36]  ²³ tn Heb “It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, saying.”

[11:11]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the runners” (also in v. 19).

[11:11]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and the runners stood, each with his weapons in his hand, from the south shoulder of the house to the north shoulder of the house, at the altar and at the house, near the king all around.”

[14:10]  ²⁷ tn Or “you have indeed defeated Edom.”

[14:10]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and your heart has lifted you up.”

[14:10]  ²⁹ tn Heb “be glorified.”

[14:10]  ³⁰ tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”

[17:29]  ²⁹ sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.

[17:29]  ³⁰ tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.

[17:34]  ³¹ tn Heb “fear.”

[17:34]  ³² tn Heb “commanded.”

[21:13]  ³³ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[21:13]  ³⁴ tn Heb “I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab.” The measuring line and plumb line are normally used in building a structure, not tearing it down. But here they are used ironically as metaphors of judgment, emphasizing that he will give careful attention to the task of judgment.

[21:13]  ³⁵ tn Heb “just as one wipes a plate, wiping and turning [it] on its face.” The word picture emphasizes how thoroughly the Lord will judge the city.