2 Kings 2:15

2:15 When the members of the prophetic guild in Jericho, ¹  who were standing at a distance, ²  saw him do this, they said, “The spirit that energized Elijah ³  rests upon Elisha.” They went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.

2 Kings 2:19

Elisha Demonstrates His Authority

2:19 The men of the city said to Elisha, “Look, the city has a good location, as our ⁴  master can see. But the water is bad and the land doesn’t produce crops.” ⁵ 

2 Kings 3:20

3:20 Sure enough, the next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water came flowing down from Edom and filled the land. ⁶ 

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 ⁷  and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire ⁸  and boil some stew for the prophets.” ⁹ 

2 Kings 6:23

6:23 So he threw a big banquet ¹⁰  for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back ¹¹  to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.

2 Kings 8:2-3

8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said. ¹²  She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years. 8:3 After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field. ¹³ 

2 Kings 10:33

10:33 He conquered all the land of Gilead, including the territory of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh, extending all the way from the Aroer in the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan. ¹⁴ 

2 Kings 11:20

11:20 All the people of the land celebrated, for the city had rest now that they had killed Athaliah with the sword in the royal palace.

2 Kings 13:18

13:18 Then Elisha ¹⁵  said, “Take the arrows,” and he did so. ¹⁶  He told the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” He struck the ground three times and stopped.

2 Kings 15:19

15:19 Pul ¹⁷  king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid ¹⁸  him ¹⁹  a thousand talents ²⁰  of silver to gain his support ²¹  and to solidify his control of the kingdom. ²² 

2 Kings 18:25

18:25 Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March ²³  up against this land and destroy it.’”’” ²⁴ 

2 Kings 19:11

19:11 Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. ²⁵  Do you really think you will be rescued? ²⁶ 

2 Kings 19:19

19:19 Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, Lord, are the only God.”

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. ²⁷ 

2 Kings 25:24

25:24 Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. ²⁸  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.”

[2:15]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[2:15]  ² tn Heb “and the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho, [who were standing] opposite, saw him and said.”

[2:15]  ³ tn Heb “the spirit of Elijah.”

[2:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “my.”

[2:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “miscarries” or “is barren.”

[3:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “and in the morning, when the offering is offered up, look, water was coming from the way of Edom, and the land was filled with water.”

[4:38]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the sons of the prophets were sitting before him.”

[4:38]  ¹¹ tn The words “the fire” are added for clarification.

[4:38]  ¹² tn Heb “sons of the prophets.”

[6:23]  ¹³ tn Or “held a great feast.”

[6:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “they went back.”

[8:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”

[8:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”

[10:33]  ²² tn Heb “all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassehites, from Aroer which is near the Arnon Valley, and Gilead, and Bashan.”

[13:18]  ²⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:18]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and he took [them].”

[15:19]  ²⁸ sn Pul was a nickname of Tiglath-pileser III (cf. 15:29). See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 171-72.

[15:19]  ²⁹ tn Heb “gave.”

[15:19]  ³⁰ tn Heb “Pul.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:19]  ³¹ 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 75,000 pounds of silver (cf. NCV “about seventy-four thousand pounds”); NLT “thirty-seven tons”; CEV “over thirty tons”; TEV “34,000 kilogrammes.”

[15:19]  ³² tn Heb “so his hands would be with him.”

[15:19]  ³³ tn Heb “to keep hold of the kingdom in his hand.”

[18:25]  ³¹ tn Heb “Go.”

[18:25]  ³² sn In v. 25 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 22. He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commissioned Assyria as his instrument of discipline and judgment.

[19:11]  ³⁴ tn Heb “Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, annihilating them.”

[19:11]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and will you be rescued?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No, of course not!”

[25:22]  ³⁷ 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]  ⁴⁰ tn The words “so as to give them…some assurance of safety” are supplied in the translation for clarification.