2 Kings 1:7

1:7 The king ¹  asked them, “Describe the appearance ²  of this man who came up to meet you and told you these things.”

2 Kings 3:10

3:10 The king of Israel said, “Oh no! ³  Certainly the Lord has summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to the king of Moab!”

2 Kings 4:4

4:4 Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers; ⁴  set aside each one when you have filled it.”

2 Kings 25:16

25:16 The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the Lord’s temple – including the two pillars, the big bronze basin called “The Sea,” the twelve bronze bulls under “The Sea,” ⁵  and the movable stands – was too heavy to be weighed.

2 Kings 1:13

1:13 The king ⁶  sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell ⁷  on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, “Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

2 Kings 2:21

2:21 He went out to the spring and threw the salt in. Then he said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have purified ⁸  this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops.” ⁹ 

2 Kings 3:13

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 6:20

6:20 When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O Lord, open their eyes, so they can see.” The Lord opened their eyes and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 7:8

7:8 When the men with a skin disease reached the edge of the camp, they entered a tent and had a meal. ¹²  They also took some silver, gold, and clothes and went and hid it all. ¹³  Then they went back and entered another tent. They looted it ¹⁴  and went and hid what they had taken.

2 Kings 10:9

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?

2 Kings 17:41

17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

2 Kings 18:27

18:27 But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. ¹⁵  His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.” ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 20:14

20:14 Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say? Where do they come from?” Hezekiah replied, “They come from the distant land of Babylon.”

2 Kings 21:11

21:11 “King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. ¹⁷  He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols. ¹⁸ 

2 Kings 23:16-17

23:16 When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; ¹⁹  he burned them on the altar and defiled it. This fulfilled the Lord’s announcement made by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. King Josiah ²⁰  turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this. ²¹  23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet ²²  who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

2 Kings 25:17

25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet ²³  high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet ²⁴  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

[1:7]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:7]  ² tn Heb “What was the manner…?”

[3:10]  ³ tn Or “ah.”

[4:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “all these vessels.”

[25:16]  ⁷ tc The MT lacks “the twelve bronze bulls under ‘the Sea,’” but these words have probably been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton. The scribe’s eye may have jumped from the וְהָ (vÿha-) on וְהַבָּקָר (vÿhabbaqar), “and the bulls,” to the וְהָ on וְהַמְּכֹנוֹת (vÿhammÿkhonot), “and the movable stands,” causing him to leave out the intervening words. See the parallel passage in Jer 52:20.

[1:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “went up and approached and kneeled.”

[2:21]  ¹¹ tn Or “healed.”

[2:21]  ¹² tn Heb “there will no longer be from there death and miscarriage [or, ‘barrenness’].”

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

[6:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and they saw, and look, [they were] in the middle of Samaria.”

[7:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “they ate and drank.”

[7:8]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and they hid [it].”

[7:8]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and they took from there.”

[18:27]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.

[18:27]  ²⁰ tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”

[21:11]  ²¹ tn Heb “these horrible sins.”

[21:11]  ²² sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:16]  ²³ tn Heb “and he sent and took the bones from the tombs.”

[23:16]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the king”; this has been specified as “King Josiah” in the translation for clarity (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).

[23:16]  ²⁵ tc The MT is much shorter than this. It reads, “according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.” The LXX has a much longer text at this point. It reads: “[which was proclaimed by the man of God] while Jeroboam stood by the altar at a celebration. Then he turned and saw the grave of the man of God [who proclaimed these words].” The extra material attested in the LXX was probably accidentally omitted in the Hebrew tradition when a scribe’s eye jumped from the first occurrence of the phrase “man of God” (which appears right before the extra material) and the second occurrence of the phrase (which appears at the end of the extra material).

[23:17]  ²⁵ tn Heb “man of God.”

[25:17]  ²⁷ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

[25:17]  ²⁸ tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”