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 5:21

5:21 So Gehazi ran after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from his chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right?” ⁴ 

2 Kings 10:27

10:27 They demolished ⁵  the sacred pillar of Baal and ⁶  the temple of Baal; it is used as ⁷  a latrine ⁸  to this very day.

2 Kings 23:7

23:7 He tore down the quarters ⁹  of the male cultic prostitutes in the Lord’s temple, where women were weaving shrines ¹⁰  for Asherah.

[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.

[5:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “Is there peace?”

[10:27]  ⁷ tn Or “pulled down.”

[10:27]  ⁸ tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.

[10:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “and they made it into.”

[10:27]  ¹⁰ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has the hapax legomenon מַחֲרָאוֹת (makhara’ot), “places to defecate” or “dung houses” (note the related noun חרא (khr’)/חרי (khri), “dung,” HALOT 348-49 s.v. *חֲרָאִים). The marginal reading (Qere) glosses this, perhaps euphemistically, מוֹצָאוֹת (motsa’ot), “outhouses.”

[23:7]  ¹⁰ tn Or “cubicles.” Heb “houses.”

[23:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “houses.” Perhaps tent-shrines made from cloth are in view (see BDB 109 s.v. בַּיִת). M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 286) understand this as referring to clothes made for images of the goddess.