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 3:14

3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all ⁵  lives (whom I serve), ⁶  if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah, ⁷  I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you. ⁸ 

2 Kings 5:17

5:17 Naaman said, “If not, then please give your servant a load of dirt, enough for a pair of mules to carry, ⁹  for your servant will never again offer a burnt offering or sacrifice to a god other than the Lord. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 6:11

6:11 This made the king of Syria upset. ¹¹  So he summoned his advisers ¹²  and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.” ¹³ 

2 Kings 8:8

8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift ¹⁴  and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, ¹⁵  ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Kings 16:7

16:7 Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your dependent. ¹⁶  March up and rescue me from the power ¹⁷  of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked ¹⁸  me.”

2 Kings 19:20

19:20 Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria. ¹⁹ 

2 Kings 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ²⁰  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ²¹  and how I have carried out your will.” ²²  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ²³ 

[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.

[3:14]  ⁵ tn Traditionally “the Lord of hosts.”

[3:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

[3:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”

[3:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”

[5:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “and [if] not, may there be given to your servant a load [for] a pair of mules, earth.”

[5:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for your servant will not again make a burnt offering and sacrifice to other gods, only to the Lord.”

[6:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the heart of the king of Syria was stirred up over this thing.”

[6:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “servants.”

[6:11]  ¹⁵ 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.

[8:8]  ¹⁷ tn The Hebrew text also has “in your hand.”

[8:8]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Inquire of the Lord through him, saying.”

[16:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “son.” Both terms (“servant” and “son”) reflect Ahaz’s subordinate position as Tiglath-pileser’s subject.

[16:7]  ²² tn Heb “hand, palm.”

[16:7]  ²³ tn Heb “who have arisen against.”

[19:20]  ²⁵ tn Heb “That which you prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.” The verb “I have heard” does not appear in the parallel passage in Isa 37:21, where אֲשֶׁר (’asher) probably has a causal sense, “because.”

[20:3]  ²⁹ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[20:3]  ³⁰ tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

[20:3]  ³¹ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[20:3]  ³² tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”