2 Kings 1:2

1:2 Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria ¹  and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders, ²  “Go, ask ³  Baal Zebub, ⁴  the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.”

2 Kings 1:6

1:6 They replied, ⁵  “A man came up to meet us. He told us, “Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are sending for an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. ⁶  Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.”’”

2 Kings 3:11-13

3:11 Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the Lord here that we might seek the Lord’s direction?” ⁷  One of the servants of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shapat is here; he used to be Elijah’s servant.” ⁸  3:12 Jehoshaphat said, “The Lord speaks through him.” ⁹  So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to visit him.

3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here? ¹⁰  Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”

2 Kings 3:1

Moab Fights with Israel

3:1 In the eighteenth year of King Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Ahab’s son Jehoram became king over Israel in Samaria; ¹¹  he ruled for twelve years.

2 Kings 14:1-4

Amaziah’s Reign over Judah

14:1 In the second year of the reign of Israel’s King Joash son of Joahaz, ¹²  Joash’s ¹³  son Amaziah became king over Judah. 14:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ¹⁴  His mother ¹⁵  was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem. 14:3 He did what the Lord approved, ¹⁶  but not like David his father. He followed the example of his father Joash. ¹⁷  14:4 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

Luke 13:23

13:23 Someone ¹⁸  asked ¹⁹  him, “Lord, will only a few ²⁰  be saved?” So ²¹  he said to them,

Acts 16:30

16:30 Then he brought them outside ²²  and asked, “Sirs, what must ²³  I do to be saved?”

[1:2]  ¹ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[1:2]  ² tn Heb “and he sent messengers and said to them.”

[1:2]  ³ tn That is, “seek an oracle from.”

[1:2]  ⁴ sn Apparently Baal Zebub refers to a local manifestation of the god Baal at the Philistine city of Ekron. The name appears to mean “Lord of the Flies,” but it may be a deliberate scribal corruption of Baal Zebul, “Baal, the Prince,” a title known from the Ugaritic texts. For further discussion and bibliography, see HALOT 261 s.v. זְבוּב בַּעַל and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 25.

[1:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “said to him.”

[1:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “Is it because there is no God in Israel [that] you are sending to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?” The translation seeks to bring out the sarcastic tone of the rhetorical question. In v. 3 the messengers are addressed (in the phrase “you are on your way” the second person plural pronoun is used in Hebrew), but here the king is addressed (in the phrase “you are sending” the second person singular pronoun is used).

[3:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “that we might inquire of the Lord through him?”

[3:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “who poured water on the hands of Elijah.” This refers to one of the typical tasks of a servant.

[3:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “the word of the Lord is with him.”

[3:13]  ¹⁰ tn Or “What do we have in common?” The text reads literally, “What to me and to you?”

[3:1]  ¹¹ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[14:1]  ¹² sn The name Joahaz is an alternate form of Jehoahaz.

[14:1]  ¹³ sn The referent here is Joash of Judah (see 12:21), not Joash of Israel, mentioned earlier in the verse.

[14:2]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[14:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

[14:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”

[14:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “according to all which Joash his father had done, he did.”

[13:23]  ¹⁸ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[13:23]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “said to.”

[13:23]  ²⁰ sn The warnings earlier in Jesus’ teaching have led to the question whether only a few will be saved.

[13:23]  ²¹ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate that Jesus’ reply was triggered by the preceding question.

[16:30]  ²² tn Grk “And bringing them outside, he asked.” The participle προαγαγών (proagagwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun by supplying the conjunction “then” to indicate the logical sequence.

[16:30]  ²³ tn The Greek term (δεῖ, dei) is used by Luke to represent divine necessity.