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 6:1

Elisha Makes an Ax Head Float

6:1 Some of the prophets ⁴  said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you ⁵  is too cramped ⁶  for us.

2 Kings 6:29

6:29 So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, ‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”

2 Kings 10:2

10:2 “You have with you the sons of your master, chariots and horses, a fortified city, and weapons. So when this letter arrives, ⁷ 

2 Kings 10:7-8

10:7 When they received the letter, they seized the king’s sons and executed all seventy of them. ⁸  They put their heads in baskets and sent them to him in Jezreel. 10:8 The messenger came and told Jehu, ⁹  “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” Jehu ¹⁰  said, “Stack them in two piles at the entrance of the city gate until morning.”

2 Kings 13:5

13:5 The Lord provided a deliverer ¹¹  for Israel and they were freed from Syria’s power. ¹²  The Israelites once more lived in security. ¹³ 

2 Kings 15:12

15:12 His assassination brought to fulfillment the Lord’s word to Jehu, ¹⁴  “Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” ¹⁵  That is exactly what happened. ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 16:3

16:3 He followed in the footsteps of ¹⁷  the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, ¹⁸  a horrible sin practiced by the nations ¹⁹  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

2 Kings 17:8

17:8 they observed the practices ²⁰  of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel. ²¹ 

2 Kings 21:9

21:9 But they did not obey, ²²  and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.

2 Kings 23:10

23:10 The king ²³  ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech. ²⁴ 

2 Kings 25:7

25:7 Zedekiah’s sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch. ²⁵  The king of Babylon ²⁶  then had Zedekiah’s eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon.

[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.”

[6:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”

[6:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “sit before you.”

[6:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “narrow, tight.”

[10:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “And now when this letter comes to you – with you are the sons of your master and with you are chariots and horses and a fortified city and weapons.”

[10:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and when the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered seventy men.”

[10:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:5]  ¹⁶ sn The identity of this unnamed “deliverer” is debated. For options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 143.

[13:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and they went from under the hand of Syria.”

[13:5]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as before.”

[15:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “It was the word of the Lord which he spoke to Jehu, saying.”

[15:12]  ²⁰ tn “sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.”

[15:12]  ²¹ tn Heb “and it was so.”

[16:3]  ²² tn Heb “he walked in the way of.”

[16:3]  ²³ sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

[16:3]  ²⁴ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[17:8]  ²⁵ tn Heb “walked in the customs.”

[17:8]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and [the practices of] the kings of Israel which they did.”

[21:9]  ²⁸ tn Heb “listen.”

[23:10]  ³¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:10]  ³² sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.

[25:7]  ³⁴ tn Heb “were killed before his eyes.”

[25:7]  ³⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.