2 Kings 2:16

2:16 They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord ¹  may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha ²  replied, “Don’t send them out.”

2 Kings 2:21

2:21 He went out to the spring and threw the salt in. Then he said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have purified ³  this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops.” ⁴ 

2 Kings 3:25

3:25 They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. ⁵  They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree.

Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, ⁶  but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

2 Kings 9:25-26

9:25 Jehu ordered ⁷  his officer Bidkar, “Pick him up and throw him into the part of the field that once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel. Remember, you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, when the Lord pronounced this judgment on him, 9:26 ‘“Know for sure that I saw the shed blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday,” says the Lord, “and that I will give you what you deserve right here in this plot of land,” ⁸  says the Lord.’ So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as the Lord said.” ⁹ 

2 Kings 10:25

10:25 When he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Jehu ordered the royal guard ¹⁰  and officers, “Come in and strike them down! Don’t let any escape!” So the royal guard and officers struck them down with the sword and left their bodies lying there. ¹¹  Then they entered the inner sanctuary of the temple of Baal. ¹² 

2 Kings 13:21

13:21 One day some men ¹³  were burying a man when they spotted ¹⁴  a raiding party. So they threw the dead man ¹⁵  into Elisha’s tomb. When the body ¹⁶  touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man ¹⁷  came to life and stood on his feet.

2 Kings 13:23

13:23 But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them. ¹⁸  He extended his favor to them ¹⁹  because of the promise he had made ²⁰  to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day. ²¹ 

2 Kings 23:6

23:6 He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. ²²  He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard. ²³ 

2 Kings 23:12

23:12 The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. He crushed them up ²⁴  and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.

[2:16]  ¹ tn Or “the spirit of the Lord.”

[2:16]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:21]  ³ tn Or “healed.”

[2:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “there will no longer be from there death and miscarriage [or, ‘barrenness’].”

[3:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “and [on] every good portion they were throwing each man his stone and they filled it.” The vav + perfect (“and they filled”) here indicates customary action contemporary with the situation described in the preceding main clause (where a customary imperfect is used, “they were throwing”). See the note at 3:4.

[3:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “until he had allowed its stones to remain in Kir Hareseth.”

[9:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “said to.”

[9:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “and I will repay you in this plot of land.”

[9:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord.”

[10:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “runners.”

[10:25]  ¹² tn Heb “and they threw.” No object appears. According to M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 116), this is an idiom for leaving a corpse unburied.

[10:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they came to the city of the house of Baal.” It seems unlikely that a literal city is meant. Some emend עִיר (’ir), “city,” to דְּבִיר (dÿvir) “holy place,” or suggest that עִיר is due to dittography of the immediately preceding עַד (’ad) “to.” Perhaps עִיר is here a technical term meaning “fortress” or, more likely, “inner room.”

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

[13:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and look, they saw.”

[13:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[13:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the man.”

[13:21]  ¹⁷ 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.

[13:23]  ¹⁵ tn Or “showed them compassion.”

[13:23]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he turned to them.”

[13:23]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “because of his covenant with.”

[13:23]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “until now.”

[23:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and he burned it in the Kidron Valley.”

[23:6]  ¹⁸ tc Heb “on the grave of the sons of the people.” Some Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses read the plural “graves.”

[23:12]  ¹⁹ tc The MT reads, “he ran from there,” which makes little if any sense in this context. Some prefer to emend the verbal form (Qal of רוּץ [ruts], “run”) to a Hiphil of רוּץ with third plural suffix and translate, “he quickly removed them” (see BDB 930 s.v. רוּץ, and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings [AB], 289). The suffix could have been lost in MT by haplography (note the mem [מ] that immediately follows the verb on the form מִשֳׁם, misham, “from there”). Another option, the one reflected in the translation, is to emend the verb to a Piel of רָצַץ (ratsats), “crush,” with third plural suffix.