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 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 ⁴  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. ⁵  His skin became as smooth as a young child’s ⁶  and he was healed.

2 Kings 17:28

17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. ⁷  He taught them how to worship ⁸  the Lord.

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. ⁹  19:9 The king ¹⁰  heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. ¹¹  He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

2 Kings 20:11

20:11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord ¹²  made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz. ¹³ 

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 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ¹⁴  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ¹⁵  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ¹⁶ 

[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.

[5:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “will return to you.”

[5:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”

[5:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”

[17:28]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[17:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “fear.”

[19:8]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:9]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘Look, he has come out to fight with you.’”

[20:11]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

[24:1]  ²² tn Heb “In his days.”

[24:1]  ²³ 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]  ²⁴ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”