2 Kings 17:5

17:5 The king of Assyria marched through ¹  the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.

2 Kings 2:11

2:11 As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot ²  pulled by fiery horses appeared. ³  They went between Elijah and Elisha, ⁴  and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.

2 Kings 6:24

The Lord Saves Samaria

6:24 Later King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled his entire army and attacked ⁵  and besieged Samaria. ⁶ 

2 Kings 14:11

14:11 But Amaziah would not heed the warning, ⁷  so King Jehoash of Israel attacked. ⁸  He and King Amaziah of Judah met face to face ⁹  in Beth Shemesh of Judah.

2 Kings 15:14

15:14 Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to ¹⁰  Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh. ¹¹  He killed him and took his place as king.

2 Kings 16:9

16:9 The king of Assyria responded favorably to his request; ¹²  he ¹³  attacked Damascus and captured it. He deported the people ¹⁴  to Kir and executed Rezin.

2 Kings 16:12

16:12 When the king arrived back from Damascus and ¹⁵  saw the altar, he approached it ¹⁶  and offered a sacrifice on it. ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 19:14

19:14 Hezekiah took the letter ¹⁸  from the messengers and read it. ¹⁹  Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.

2 Kings 1:9

1:9 The king ²⁰  sent a captain and his fifty soldiers ²¹  to retrieve Elijah. ²²  The captain ²³  went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. ²⁴  He told him, “Prophet, ²⁵  the king says, ‘Come down!’”

2 Kings 1:13

1:13 The king ²⁶  sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell ²⁷  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 2:23

2:23 He went up from there to Bethel. ²⁸  As he was traveling up the road, some young boys ²⁹  came out of the city and made fun of him, saying, “Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!”

2 Kings 4:34-35

4:34 He got up on the bed and spread his body out over ³⁰  the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s ³¹  mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin ³²  grew warm. 4:35 Elisha ³³  went back and walked around in the house. ³⁴  Then he got up on the bed again ³⁵  and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

2 Kings 12:10

12:10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary ³⁶  and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up. ³⁷ 

2 Kings 23:2

23:2 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud ³⁸  all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 12:18

12:18 King Jehoash of Judah collected all the sacred items that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, as well as his own sacred items and all the gold that could be found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He sent it all ³⁹  to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew ⁴⁰  from Jerusalem.

[17:5]  ¹ tn Heb “went up against.”

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

[2:11]  ³ tn Heb “look, a chariot of fire and horses of fire.”

[2:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they made a division between the two of them.”

[6:24]  ³ tn Heb “went up.”

[6:24]  ⁴ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[14:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “did not listen.”

[14:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “went up.”

[14:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “looked at each other [in the] face.”

[15:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “and came to.”

[15:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “went up from Tirzah and arrived in Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria.”

[16:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “listened to him.”

[16:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “the king of Assyria.”

[16:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “it.”

[16:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the king.”

[16:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “the altar.”

[16:12]  ⁹ tn Or “ascended it.”

[19:14]  ⁸ tc The MT has the plural, “letters,” but the final mem is probably dittographic (note the initial mem on the form that immediately follows). Some Greek and Aramaic witnesses have the singular.

[19:14]  ⁹ tc The MT has the plural suffix, “them,” but this probably reflects a later harmonization to the preceding textual corruption (of “letter” to “letters”). The parallel passage in Isa 37:14 has the singular suffix.

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

[1:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “officer of fifty and his fifty.”

[1:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to him.”

[1:9]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the captain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:9]  ¹³ sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.

[1:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 10, 11, 12, 13).

[1:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “went up and approached and kneeled.”

[2:23]  ¹¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[2:23]  ¹² tn The word נַעַר (na’ar), here translated “boy,” can refer to a broad age range, including infants as well as young men. But the qualifying term “young” (or “small”) suggests these youths were relatively young. The phrase in question (“young boy”) occurs elsewhere in 1 Sam 20:35; 1 Kgs 3:7 (used by Solomon in an hyperbolic manner); 11:17; 2 Kgs 5:14; and Isa 11:6.

[4:34]  ¹² tn Heb “he went up and lay down over.”

[4:34]  ¹³ tn Heb “his” (also in the next two clauses).

[4:34]  ¹⁴ tn Or perhaps, “body”; Heb “flesh.”

[4:35]  ¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:35]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”

[4:35]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and he went up.”

[12:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the king’s scribe.”

[12:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the Lord.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to make better sense in English, since it seems more logical to count the money before bagging it (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

[23:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “read in their ears.”

[12:18]  ¹⁶ tn The object (“it all”) is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[12:18]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “went up.”