2 Kings 1:11

1:11 The king ¹  sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, ²  “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’” ³ 

2 Kings 1:15

1:15 The Lord’s angelic messenger said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” So he got up and went down ⁴  with him to the king.

2 Kings 2:11

2:11 As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot ⁵  pulled by fiery horses appeared. ⁶  They went between Elijah and Elisha, ⁷  and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.

2 Kings 6:33

6:33 He was still talking to them when ⁸  the messenger approached ⁹  and said, “Look, the Lord is responsible for this disaster! ¹⁰  Why should I continue to wait for the Lord to help?”

2 Kings 7:18

7:18 The prophet told the king, “Two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of finely milled flour for a shekel; this will happen about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria.”

2 Kings 8:4

8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s ¹¹  servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.”

2 Kings 10:17

10:17 He went to Samaria and exterminated all the members of Ahab’s family who were still alive in Samaria, ¹²  just as the Lord had announced to Elijah. ¹³ 

2 Kings 14:27

14:27 The Lord had not decreed that he would blot out Israel’s memory ¹⁴  from under heaven, ¹⁵  so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.

2 Kings 15:12

15:12 His assassination brought to fulfillment the Lord’s word to Jehu, ¹⁶  “Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” ¹⁷  That is exactly what happened. ¹⁸ 

2 Kings 18:28

18:28 The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, ¹⁹  “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 19:21

19:21 This is what the Lord says about him: ²⁰ 

“The virgin daughter Zion ²¹ 

despises you, she makes fun of you;

Daughter Jerusalem

shakes her head after you. ²² 

2 Kings 20:19

20:19 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The Lord’s word which you have announced is appropriate.” ²³  Then he added, ²⁴  “At least there will be peace and stability during my lifetime.” ²⁵ 

[1:11]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:11]  ² tc The MT reads, “he answered and said to him.” The verb “he answered” (וַיַּעַן, vayya’an) is probably a corruption of “he went up” (וַיַּעַל, vayya’al). See v. 9.

[1:11]  ³ sn In this second panel of the three-paneled narrative, the king and his captain are more arrogant than before. The captain uses a more official sounding introduction (“this is what the king says”) and the king adds “at once” to the command.

[1:15]  ⁴ sn In this third panel the verb “come down” (יָרַד, yarad) occurs again, this time describing Elijah’s descent from the hill at the Lord’s command. The moral of the story seems clear: Those who act as if they have authority over God and his servants just may pay for their arrogance with their lives; those who, like the third commander, humble themselves and show the proper respect for God’s authority and for his servants will be spared and find God quite cooperative.

[2:11]  ⁷ tn Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”

[2:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “look, a chariot of fire and horses of fire.”

[2:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “and they made a division between the two of them.”

[6:33]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text also has “look” here.

[6:33]  ¹¹ tn Heb “came down to him.”

[6:33]  ¹² tn Heb “Look, this is a disaster from the Lord.”

[8:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

[10:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and he struck down all the remaining ones to Ahab in Samaria until he destroyed him.”

[10:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to Elijah.”

[14:27]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “name.”

[14:27]  ²⁰ tn The phrase “from under heaven” adds emphasis to the verb “blot out” and suggest total annihilation. For other examples of the verb מָחָה (makhah), “blot out,” combined with “from under heaven,” see Exod 17:14; Deut 9:14; 25:19; 29:20.

[15:12]  ²² tn Heb “It was the word of the Lord which he spoke to Jehu, saying.”

[15:12]  ²³ tn “sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.”

[15:12]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and it was so.”

[18:28]  ²⁵ tn The Hebrew text also has, “and he spoke and said.”

[19:21]  ²⁸ tn Heb “this is the word which the Lord has spoken about him.”

[19:21]  ²⁹ sn Zion (Jerusalem) is pictured here as a young, vulnerable daughter whose purity is being threatened by the would-be Assyrian rapist. The personification hints at the reality which the young girls of the city would face if the Assyrians conquer it.

[19:21]  ³⁰ sn Shaking the head was a mocking gesture of derision.

[20:19]  ³¹ tn Heb “good.”

[20:19]  ³² tn Heb “and he said.” Many English versions translate, “for he thought.” The verb אָמַר (’amar), “say,” is sometimes used of what one thinks (that is, says to oneself). Cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT.

[20:19]  ³³ tn Heb “Is it not [true] there will be peace and stability in my days?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, there will be peace and stability.”