2 Kings 2:20

2:20 Elisha ¹  said, “Get me a new jar and put some salt in it.” So they got it.

2 Kings 3:15

3:15 But now, get me a musician.” ²  When the musician played, the Lord energized him, ³ 

2 Kings 4:22

4:22 She called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”

2 Kings 4:24

4:24 She saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Lead on. ⁴  Do not stop unless I say so.” ⁵ 

2 Kings 6:31

6:31 Then he said, “May God judge me severely ⁶  if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!” ⁷ 

2 Kings 8:4

8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s ⁸  servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.”

2 Kings 8:14

8:14 He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad ⁹  asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?” Hazael ¹⁰  replied, “He told me you would surely recover.”

2 Kings 9:5

9:5 When he arrived, the officers of the army were sitting there. ¹¹  So he said, “I have a message for you, O officer.” ¹²  Jehu asked, “For which one of us?” ¹³  He replied, “For you, O officer.”

2 Kings 20:8

20:8 Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What is the confirming sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the Lord’s temple the day after tomorrow?”

2 Kings 22:10

22:10 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

2 Kings 3:13

3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here? ¹⁴  Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”

2 Kings 4:2

4:2 Elisha said to her, “What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil.”

2 Kings 4:27

4:27 But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said, “Leave her alone, for she is very upset. ¹⁵  The Lord has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn’t tell me about it.”

2 Kings 5:7

5:7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill or restore life? Why does he ask me to cure a man of his skin disease? ¹⁶  Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!” ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 6:11

6:11 This made the king of Syria upset. ¹⁸  So he summoned his advisers ¹⁹  and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.” ²⁰ 

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, ²¹  then take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow.” ²²  Now the king had seventy sons, and the prominent ²³  men of the city were raising them.

2 Kings 10:19

10:19 So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. ²⁴  None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of them who fail to appear will lose their lives.” But Jehu was tricking them ²⁵  so he could destroy the servants of Baal.

2 Kings 16:15

16:15 King Ahaz ordered Uriah the priest, “On the large altar ²⁶  offer the morning burnt sacrifice, the evening grain offering, the royal burnt sacrifices and grain offering, the burnt sacrifice for all the people of Israel, their grain offering, and their libations. Sprinkle all the blood of the burnt sacrifice and other sacrifices on it. The bronze altar will be for my personal use.” ²⁷ 

[2:20]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:15]  ² tn The term used refers to one who plays a stringed instrument, perhaps a harp.

[3:15]  ³ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord came on him.” This may refer to what typically happened, “[for] when a musician played, the hand of the Lord would come upon him.”

[4:24]  ³ tn Heb “lead [the donkey on] and go.”

[4:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “do not restrain for me the riding unless I say to you.”

[6:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”

[6:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

[8:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

[8:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hazael) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he arrived and look, the officers of the army were sitting.”

[9:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “[there is] a word for me to you, O officer.”

[9:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “To whom from all of us?”

[3:13]  ⁸ tn Or “What do we have in common?” The text reads literally, “What to me and to you?”

[4:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “her soul [i.e., ‘disposition’] is bitter.”

[5:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Am I God, killing and restoring life, that this one sends to me to cure a man from his skin disease?” In the Hebrew text this is one lengthy rhetorical question, which has been divided up in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[5:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Indeed, know and see that he is seeking an occasion with respect to me.”

[6:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and the heart of the king of Syria was stirred up over this thing.”

[6:11]  ¹² tn Heb “servants.”

[6:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “Will you not tell me who among us [is] for the king of Israel?” The sarcastic rhetorical question expresses the king’s suspicion.

[10:6]  ¹² tn Heb “If you are mine and you are listening to my voice.”

[10:6]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “great,” probably in wealth, position, and prestige.

[10:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests summon to me.”

[10:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “acted with deception [or, ‘trickery’].”

[16:15]  ¹⁴ tn That is, the newly constructed altar.

[16:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “for me to seek.” The precise meaning of בָּקַר (baqar), “seek,” is uncertain in this context. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189.