2 Kings 2:17

2:17 But they were so insistent, he became embarrassed. So he said, “Send them out.” They sent the fifty men out and they looked for three days, but could not find Elijah. ¹ 

2 Kings 4:5

4:5 So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.

2 Kings 5:24

5:24 When he arrived at the hill, he took them from the servants ²  and put them in the house. Then he sent the men on their way. ³ 

2 Kings 8:19

8:19 But the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah. He preserved Judah for the sake of ⁴  his servant David to whom he had promised a perpetual dynasty. ⁵ 

2 Kings 8:28

8:28 He joined Ahab’s son Joram in a battle against King Hazael of Syria at Ramoth Gilead in which the Syrians defeated Joram.

2 Kings 9:24

9:24 Jehu aimed his bow and shot an arrow right between Jehoram’s shoulders. ⁶  The arrow went through ⁷  his heart and he fell to his knees in his chariot.

2 Kings 13:6

13:6 But they did not repudiate ⁸  the sinful ways of the family ⁹  of Jeroboam, who encouraged Israel to sin; they continued in those sins. ¹⁰  There was even an Asherah pole ¹¹  standing in Samaria.

2 Kings 13:18

13:18 Then Elisha ¹²  said, “Take the arrows,” and he did so. ¹³  He told the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” He struck the ground three times and stopped.

2 Kings 17:20

17:20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated ¹⁴  them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.

2 Kings 18:5

18:5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; in this regard there was none like him among the kings of Judah either before or after. ¹⁵ 

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 ¹⁶  up against this land and destroy it.’”’” ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 18:28

18:28 The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, ¹⁸  “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 19:9

19:9 The king ¹⁹  heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. ²⁰  He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

2 Kings 19:12

19:12 Were the nations whom my ancestors destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods? ²¹ 

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 24:3

24:3 Just as the Lord had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins which Manasseh had committed. ²² 

2 Kings 25:5

25:5 But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with him in the plains of Jericho, ²³  and his entire army deserted him.

[2:17]  ¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:24]  ² tn Heb “from their hand.”

[5:24]  ³ tn Heb “and he sent the men away and they went.”

[8:19]  ³ tn The Hebrew has only one sentence, “and the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah for the sake of.” The translation divides it for the sake of clarity.

[8:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “just as he had promised to give him and his sons a lamp all the days.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty; this is reflected in the translation.

[9:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “and Jehu filled his hand with the bow and he struck Jehoram between his shoulders.”

[9:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “went out from.”

[13:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “they did not turn away from.”

[13:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “house.”

[13:6]  ⁷ tc Heb “in it he walked.” The singular verb (הָלַךְ, halakh) is probably due to an error of haplography and should be emended to the plural (הָלְכּוּ, halÿku). Note that a vav immediately follows (on the form וְגַם, vÿgam).

[13:6]  ⁸ tn Or “an image of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “the Asherah”; NCV “the Asherah idol.”

[13:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he took [them].”

[17:20]  ⁷ tn Or “afflicted.”

[18:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “and after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, and those who were before him.”

[18:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “Go.”

[18:25]  ¹⁰ 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.

[18:28]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text also has, “and he spoke and said.”

[19:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:9]  ¹² tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘Look, he has come out to fight with you.’”

[19:12]  ¹² tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them – Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?”

[24:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “Certainly according to the word of the Lord this happened against Judah, to remove [them] from his face because of the sins of Manasseh according to all which he did.”

[25:5]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.