2 Kings 13:20

13:20 Elisha died and was buried. ¹  Moabite raiding parties invaded ²  the land at the beginning of the year. ³ 

2 Kings 25:21

25:21 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed ⁴  at Riblah in the territory ⁵  of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.

2 Kings 4:38

Elisha Makes a Meal Edible

4:38 Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him ⁶  and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire ⁷  and boil some stew for the prophets.” ⁸ 

2 Kings 6:23

6:23 So he threw a big banquet ⁹  for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back ¹⁰  to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.

2 Kings 8:2

8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said. ¹¹  She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

2 Kings 23:33

23:33 Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath and prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem. ¹²  He imposed on the land a special tax ¹³  of one hundred talents ¹⁴  of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Kings 25:22

Gedaliah Appointed Governor

25:22 Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over the people whom he allowed to remain in the land of Judah. ¹⁵ 

2 Kings 25:24

25:24 Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. ¹⁶  He said, “You don’t need to be afraid to submit to the Babylonian officials. Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you.”

2 Kings 15:20

15:20 Menahem got this silver by taxing all the wealthy men in Israel; he took fifty shekels of silver from each one of them and paid it to the king of Assyria. ¹⁷  Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ¹⁸  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ¹⁹  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ²⁰  and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law ²¹  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

[13:20]  ¹ tn Heb “and they buried him.”

[13:20]  ² tn Heb “entered.”

[13:20]  ³ tc The MT reading בָּא שָׁנָה (ba’ shanah), “it came, year,” should probably be emended to בְּבָּא הַשָּׁנָה (bÿba’ hashanah), “at the coming [i.e., ‘beginning’] of the year.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 148.

[25:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”

[25:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “land.”

[4:38]  ⁷ tn Heb “the sons of the prophets were sitting before him.”

[4:38]  ⁸ tn The words “the fire” are added for clarification.

[4:38]  ⁹ tn Heb “sons of the prophets.”

[6:23]  ¹⁰ tn Or “held a great feast.”

[6:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “they went back.”

[8:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”

[23:33]  ¹⁶ tc The consonantal text (Kethib) has “when [he was] ruling in Jerusalem,” but the marginal reading (Qere), which has support from Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses, has “[preventing him] from ruling in Jerusalem.”

[23:33]  ¹⁷ tn Or “fine.”

[23:33]  ¹⁸ 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 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “almost four tons of silver and about seventy-five pounds of gold.”

[25:22]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “And the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left, he appointed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.”

[25:24]  ²² tn The words “so as to give them…some assurance of safety” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[15:20]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and Menahem brought out the silver over Israel, over the prominent men of means, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver for each man.”

[23:24]  ²⁸ tn Here בִּעֵר (bi’er) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.

[23:24]  ²⁹ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ³⁰ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ³¹ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”