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 ¹  master can see. But the water is bad and the land doesn’t produce crops.” ² 

2 Kings 24:16

24:16 The king of Babylon deported to Babylon all the soldiers (there were 7,000), as well as 1,000 craftsmen and metal workers. This included all the best warriors. ³ 

2 Kings 23:17

23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet ⁴  who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

2 Kings 25:4

25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls, ⁵  and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. ⁶  They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. ⁷  (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. ⁸ 

2 Kings 10:6

10:6 He wrote them a second letter, saying, “If you are really on my side and are willing to obey me, ⁹  then take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow.” ¹⁰  Now the king had seventy sons, and the prominent ¹¹  men of the city were raising them.

2 Kings 25:19

25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five ¹²  of the king’s advisers ¹³  who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens ¹⁴  for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

[2:19]  ¹ tn Heb “my.”

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

[24:16]  ³ tn Heb “the entire [group], mighty men, doers of war.”

[23:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “man of God.”

[25:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “the city was breached.”

[25:4]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense.

[25:4]  ⁹ sn The king’s garden is mentioned again in Neh 3:15 in conjunction with the pool of Siloam and the stairs that go down from the city of David. This would have been in the southern part of the city near the Tyropean Valley which agrees with the reference to the “two walls” which were probably the walls on the eastern and western hills.

[25:4]  ¹⁰ sn Heb “toward the Arabah.” The Arabah was the rift valley north and south of the Dead Sea. Here the intention was undoubtedly to escape across the Jordan to Moab or Ammon. It appears from Jer 40:14; 41:15 that the Ammonites were known to harbor fugitives from the Babylonians.

[10:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “If you are mine and you are listening to my voice.”

[10:6]  ¹⁰ sn Jehu’s command is intentionally vague. Does he mean that they should bring the guardians (those who are “heads” over Ahab’s sons) for a meeting, or does he mean that they should bring the literal heads of Ahab’s sons with them? (So LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and some mss of the Targum) The city leaders interpret his words in the literal sense, but Jehu’s command is so ambiguous he is able to deny complicity in the executions (see v. 9).

[10:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “great,” probably in wealth, position, and prestige.

[25:19]  ¹¹ tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”

[25:19]  ¹² tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”

[25:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “the people of the land.”