2 Kings 13:21

13:21 One day some men ¹  were burying a man when they spotted ²  a raiding party. So they threw the dead man ³  into Elisha’s tomb. When the body ⁴  touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man ⁵  came to life and stood on his feet.

2 Kings 18:31

18:31 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. ⁶  Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

2 Kings 25:4

25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls, ⁷  and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. ⁸  They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. ⁹  (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. ¹⁰ 

[13:21]  ¹ tn Heb “and it so happened [that] they.”

[13:21]  ² tn Heb “and look, they saw.”

[13:21]  ³ tn Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[13:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “the man.”

[13:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the dead man) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Otherwise the reader might think it was Elisha rather than the unnamed dead man who came back to life.

[18:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”

[25:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the city was breached.”

[25:4]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense.

[25:4]  ¹³ sn The king’s garden is mentioned again in Neh 3:15 in conjunction with the pool of Siloam and the stairs that go down from the city of David. This would have been in the southern part of the city near the Tyropean Valley which agrees with the reference to the “two walls” which were probably the walls on the eastern and western hills.

[25:4]  ¹⁴ sn Heb “toward the Arabah.” The Arabah was the rift valley north and south of the Dead Sea. Here the intention was undoubtedly to escape across the Jordan to Moab or Ammon. It appears from Jer 40:14; 41:15 that the Ammonites were known to harbor fugitives from the Babylonians.