2 Kings 1:16

1:16 Elijah ¹  said to the king, ²  “This is what the Lord says, ‘You sent messengers to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. You must think there is no God in Israel from whom you can seek an oracle! ³  Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.’” ⁴ 

2 Kings 8:5

8:5 While Gehazi ⁵  was telling the king how Elisha ⁶  had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. ⁷  Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”

2 Kings 10:19

10:19 So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. ⁸  None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of them who fail to appear will lose their lives.” But Jehu was tricking them ⁹  so he could destroy the servants of Baal.

2 Kings 18:14

18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty. ¹⁰  If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” ¹¹  So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents ¹²  of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 18:17

18:17 The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser ¹³  from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, ¹⁴  along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went ¹⁵  and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth. ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 25:23

25:23 All of the officers of the Judahite army ¹⁷  and their troops heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah to govern. So they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. The officers who came were Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite.

[1:16]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:16]  ² tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:16]  ³ tn Heb “Because you sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is there no God in Israel to inquire of his word?”

[1:16]  ⁴ sn For the third time in this chapter we read the Lord’s sarcastic question to king and the accompanying announcement of judgment. The repetition emphasizes one of the chapter’s main themes. Israel’s leaders should seek guidance from their own God, not a pagan deity, for Israel’s sovereign God is the one who controls life and death.

[8:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “and look, the woman whose son he had brought back to life was crying out to the king for her house and her field.”

[10:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests summon to me.”

[10:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “acted with deception [or, ‘trickery’].”

[18:14]  ¹³ tn Or “I have done wrong.”

[18:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

[18:14]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.

[18:17]  ¹⁷ sn For a discussion of these titles see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 229-30.

[18:17]  ¹⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[18:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and they went up and came.”

[18:17]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the field of the washer.”

[25:23]  ²¹ tn Heb “of the army.” The word “Judahite” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.