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 3:4

3:4 Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder. ⁴  He would send as tribute ⁵  to the king of Israel 100,000 male lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.

2 Kings 4:22

4:22 She called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”

2 Kings 4:38

Elisha Makes a Meal Edible

4:38 Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him ⁶  and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire ⁷  and boil some stew for the prophets.” ⁸ 

2 Kings 5:10

5:10 Elisha sent out a messenger who told him, “Go and wash seven times in the Jordan; your skin will be restored ⁹  and you will be healed.”

2 Kings 5:14

5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. ¹⁰  His skin became as smooth as a young child’s ¹¹  and he was healed.

2 Kings 7:15

7:15 So they tracked them ¹²  as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. ¹³  The scouts ¹⁴  went back and told the king.

2 Kings 8:3

8:3 After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field. ¹⁵ 

2 Kings 9:20

9:20 The watchman reported, “He reached them, but hasn’t started back. The one who drives the lead chariot drives like Jehu son of Nimshi; ¹⁶  he drives recklessly.”

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. ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 19:8-9

19:8 When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning. ¹⁸  19:9 The king ¹⁹  heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. ²⁰  He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

2 Kings 19:28

19:28 Because you rage against me,

and the uproar you create has reached my ears; ²¹ 

I will put my hook in your nose, ²² 

and my bridle between your lips,

and I will lead you back the way

you came.”

2 Kings 20:10-11

20:10 Hezekiah answered, “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps, but not for it ²³  to go back ten steps.” 20:11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord ²⁴  made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz. ²⁵ 

2 Kings 23:20

23:20 He sacrificed all the priests of the high places on the altars located there, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 23:26

23:26 Yet the Lord’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done. ²⁶ 

2 Kings 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ²⁷  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ²⁸  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ²⁹ 

[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.

[3:4]  ⁴ tn For a discussion of the meaning of term (נֹקֵד, noqed), see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 43.

[3:4]  ⁵ tn The vav + perfect here indicates customary action contemporary with the situation described in the preceding main clause. See IBHS 533-34 §32.2.3e.

[4:38]  ⁷ tn Heb “the sons of the prophets were sitting before him.”

[4:38]  ⁸ tn The words “the fire” are added for clarification.

[4:38]  ⁹ tn Heb “sons of the prophets.”

[5:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “will return to you.”

[5:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”

[5:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”

[7:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “went after.”

[7:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and look, all the road was full of clothes and equipment that Syria had thrown away in their haste.”

[7:15]  ¹⁸ tn Or “messengers.”

[8:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”

[9:20]  ²² tn Heb “and the driving is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi.”

[18:24]  ²⁵ tn 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.”

[19:8]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and the chief adviser returned and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.”

[19:9]  ³¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:9]  ³² tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘Look, he has come out to fight with you.’”

[19:28]  ³⁴ tc Heb “and your complacency comes up into my ears.” The parallelism is improved if שַׁאֲנַנְךְ (sha’anankh), “your complacency,” is emended to שַׁאֲוַנְךְ (sha’avankh), “your uproar.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 237-38.

[19:28]  ³⁵ sn The word picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.

[20:10]  ³⁷ tn Heb “the shadow.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[20:11]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:11]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.”

[23:26]  ⁴³ tn Heb “Yet the Lord did not turn away from the fury of his great anger, which raged against Judah, on account of all the infuriating things by which Manasseh had made him angry.”

[24:1]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “In his days.”

[24:1]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.

[24:1]  ⁴⁸ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”