Discovery Box2 Kings 2:16
Context2:16 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 7:4
Context7:4 If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, 3 and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect 4 to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, 5 we’ll live; if they kill us – well, we were going to die anyway.” 6
2 Kings 7:6
Context7:6 The Lord had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!”
2 Kings 7:8
Context7:8 When the men with a skin disease reached the edge of the camp, they entered a tent and had a meal. 7 They also took some silver, gold, and clothes and went and hid it all. 8 Then they went back and entered another tent. They looted it 9 and went and hid what they had taken.
2 Kings 9:25
Context9:25 Jehu ordered 10 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,
2 Kings 14:9
Context14:9 King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal 11 of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn. 12
2 Kings 20:5
Context20:5 “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow 13 you will go up to the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 22:13
Context22:13 “Go, seek an oracle from 14 the Lord for me and the people – for all Judah. Find out about 15 the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us, 16 because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this scroll by doing all that it instructs us to do.” 17
2 Kings 23:24
Context23:24 Josiah also got rid of 18 the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, 19 the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, 20 and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law 21 recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.
[2:16] 1 tn Or “the spirit of the
[2:16] 2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[7:4] 3 tn Heb “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city and we will die there.”
[7:4] 5 tn Heb “keep us alive.”
[7:4] 6 tn Heb “we will die.” The paraphrastic translation attempts to bring out the logical force of their reasoning.
[7:8] 5 tn Heb “they ate and drank.”
[7:8] 6 tn Heb “and they hid [it].”
[7:8] 7 tn Heb “and they took from there.”
[14:9] 9 tn Heb “the animal of the field.”
[14:9] 10 sn Judah is the thorn in the allegory. Amaziah’s success has deceived him into thinking he is on the same level as the major powers in the area (symbolized by the cedar). In reality he is not capable of withstanding an attack by a real military power such as Israel (symbolized by the wild animal).
[20:5] 11 tn Heb “on the third day.”
[22:13] 13 tn Or “inquire of.”
[22:13] 14 tn Heb “concerning.”
[22:13] 15 tn Heb “for great is the anger of the
[22:13] 16 tn Heb “by doing all that is written concerning us.” Perhaps עָלֵינוּ (’alenu), “concerning us,” should be altered to עָלָיו (’alav), “upon it,” in which case one could translate, “by doing all that is written in it.”
[23:24] 15 tn Here בִּעֵר (bi’er) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.
[23:24] 16 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.
[23:24] 17 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
