2 Kings 2:14

2:14 He took the cloak that had fallen off Elijah, ¹  hit the water with it, and said, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” When he hit the water, it divided and Elisha crossed over.

2 Kings 5:7

5:7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill or restore life? Why does he ask me to cure a man of his skin disease? ²  Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!” ³ 

2 Kings 5:15

5:15 He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman ⁴  came and stood before him. He said, “For sure ⁵  I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.”

2 Kings 7:9

7:9 Then they said to one another, “It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone. ⁶  If we wait until dawn, ⁷  we’ll be punished. ⁸  So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”

2 Kings 8:21

8:21 Joram ⁹  crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers. ¹⁰  The Israelite army retreated to their homeland. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 9:14

9:14 Then Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.

Jehu the Assassin

Now Joram had been in Ramoth Gilead with the whole Israelite army, ¹²  guarding against an invasion by King Hazael of Syria.

2 Kings 9:36

9:36 When they went back and told him, he said, “The Lord’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, ¹³  ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.

2 Kings 14:7

14:7 He defeated ¹⁴  10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.

2 Kings 14:25

14:25 He restored the border of Israel from Lebo Hamath in the north to the sea of the Arabah in the south, ¹⁵  in accordance with the word of the Lord God of Israel announced through ¹⁶  his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

2 Kings 18:4

18:4 He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. ¹⁷  He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time ¹⁸  the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan. ¹⁹ 

2 Kings 18:22

18:22 Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.’

2 Kings 19:15

19:15 Hezekiah prayed before the Lord: “Lord God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubs! ²⁰  You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky ²¹  and the earth.

2 Kings 19:37

19:37 One day, ²²  as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, ²³  his sons ²⁴  Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. ²⁵  They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

2 Kings 24:12

24:12 King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered ²⁶  to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, ²⁷  took Jehoiachin ²⁸  prisoner.

2 Kings 25:1

25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside ²⁹  it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. ³⁰ 

[2:14]  ¹ tn Heb “Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him.” The wording is changed slightly in the translation for the sake of variety of expression (see v. 13).

[5:7]  ² tn Heb “Am I God, killing and restoring life, that this one sends to me to cure a man from his skin disease?” In the Hebrew text this is one lengthy rhetorical question, which has been divided up in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[5:7]  ³ tn Heb “Indeed, know and see that he is seeking an occasion with respect to me.”

[5:15]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “look.”

[7:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”

[7:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “the light of the morning.”

[7:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “punishment will find us.”

[8:21]  ⁵ sn Joram is a short form of the name Jehoram.

[8:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he arose at night and defeated Edom, who had surrounded him, and the chariot officers.” The Hebrew text as it stands gives the impression that Joram was surrounded and launched a victorious night counterattack. It would then be quite natural to understand the last statement in the verse to refer to an Edomite retreat. Yet v. 22 goes on to state that the Edomite revolt was successful. Therefore, if the MT is retained, it may be better to understand the final statement in v. 21 as a reference to an Israelite retreat (made in spite of the success described in the preceding sentence). The translation above assumes an emendation of the Hebrew text. Adding a third masculine singular pronominal suffix to the accusative sign before Edom (reading אֶתוֹ [’eto], “him,” instead of just אֶת [’et]) and taking Edom as the subject of verbs allows one to translate the verse in a way that is more consistent with the context, which depicts an Israelite defeat, not victory. There is, however, no evidence for this emendation.

[8:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the people fled to their tents.”

[9:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “he and all Israel.”

[9:36]  ⁷ tn Heb “It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, saying.”

[14:7]  ⁸ tn Or “struck down.”

[14:25]  ⁹ tn The phrases “in the north” and “in the south” are added in the translation for clarification.

[14:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “which he spoke by the hand of.”

[18:4]  ¹⁰ tn The term is singular in the MT but plural in the LXX and other ancient versions. It is also possible to regard the singular as a collective singular, especially in the context of other plural items.

[18:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “until those days.”

[18:4]  ¹² tn In Hebrew the name sounds like the phrase נְחַשׁ הַנְּחֹשֶׁת (nÿkhash hannÿkhoshet), “bronze serpent.”

[19:15]  ¹¹ sn This refers to the cherub images that were above the ark of the covenant.

[19:15]  ¹² tn Or “the heavens.”

[19:37]  ¹² sn The assassination probably took place in 681 b.c.

[19:37]  ¹³ sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.

[19:37]  ¹⁴ tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions. Cf. Isa 37:38.

[19:37]  ¹⁵ sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.

[24:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “came out.”

[24:12]  ¹⁴ sn That is, the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, 597 b.c.

[24:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:1]  ¹⁴ tn Or “against.”

[25:1]  ¹⁵ sn This would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).