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 2:11

2:11 As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot ⁵  pulled by fiery horses appeared. ⁶  They went between Elijah and Elisha, ⁷  and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.

2 Kings 3:19

3:19 You will defeat every fortified city and every important ⁸  city. You must chop down ⁹  every productive ¹⁰  tree, stop up all the springs, and cover all the cultivated land with stones.” ¹¹ 

2 Kings 4:31

4:31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha ¹²  he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

2 Kings 4:42

Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People

4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet ¹³  – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. ¹⁴  Elisha ¹⁵  said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”

2 Kings 6:11

6:11 This made the king of Syria upset. ¹⁶  So he summoned his advisers ¹⁷  and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.” ¹⁸ 

2 Kings 6:25

6:25 Samaria’s food supply ran out. ¹⁹  They laid siege to it so long that ²⁰  a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver ²¹  and a quarter of a kab ²²  of dove’s droppings ²³  for five shekels of silver. ²⁴ 

2 Kings 6:28

6:28 Then the king asked her, “What’s your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’

2 Kings 8:18

8:18 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. ²⁵  He did evil in the sight of ²⁶  the Lord.

2 Kings 10:9-10

10:9 In the morning he went out and stood there. Then he said to all the people, “You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all of these men? 10:10 Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the Lord announced against Ahab’s dynasty has failed to materialize. The Lord had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.” ²⁷ 

2 Kings 17:36

17:36 Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; ²⁸  bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.

[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.

[2:11]  ⁵ tn Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”

[2:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “look, a chariot of fire and horses of fire.”

[2:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they made a division between the two of them.”

[3:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “choice” or “select.”

[3:19]  ¹⁰ tn Elisha places the object first and uses an imperfect verb form. The stylistic shift may signal that he is now instructing them what to do, rather than merely predicting what would happen.

[3:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “good.”

[3:19]  ¹² tn Heb “and ruin every good portion with stones.”

[4:31]  ¹³ tn Heb “to meet him.”

[4:42]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “man of God.”

[4:42]  ¹⁸ tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.

[4:42]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:11]  ²¹ tn Heb “and the heart of the king of Syria was stirred up over this thing.”

[6:11]  ²² tn Heb “servants.”

[6:11]  ²³ tn Heb “Will you not tell me who among us [is] for the king of Israel?” The sarcastic rhetorical question expresses the king’s suspicion.

[6:25]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”

[6:25]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”

[6:25]  ²⁷ tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

[6:25]  ²⁸ sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately one quart.

[6:25]  ²⁹ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) reads, “dove dung” (חֲרֵייוֹנִים, khareyonim), while the marginal reading (Qere) has “discharge” (דִּבְיוֹנִים, divyonim). Based on evidence from Akkadian, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 79) suggest that “dove’s dung” was a popular name for the inedible husks of seeds.

[6:25]  ³⁰ tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

[8:18]  ²⁹ tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”

[8:18]  ³⁰ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[10:10]  ³³ tn Heb “Know then that there has not fallen from the word of the Lord to the ground that which the Lord spoke against the house of Ahab. The Lord has done that which he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah.”

[17:36]  ³⁷ tn Heb “and outstretched arm.”