2 Kings 2:3

2:3 Some members of the prophetic guild ¹  in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” ²  He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

2 Kings 2:5

2:5 Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

2 Kings 4:8

Elisha Gives Life to a Boy

4:8 One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent ³  woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. ⁴  So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal. ⁵ 

2 Kings 6:28

6:28 Then the king asked her, “What’s your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’

2 Kings 7:9

7:9 Then they said to one another, “It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone. ⁶  If we wait until dawn, ⁷  we’ll be punished. ⁸  So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”

2 Kings 14:7

14:7 He defeated ⁹  10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.

2 Kings 16:6

16:6 (At that time King Rezin of Syria ¹⁰  recovered Elat for Syria; he drove the Judahites from there. ¹¹  Syrians ¹²  arrived in Elat and live there to this very day.)

2 Kings 17:23

17:23 Finally ¹³  the Lord rejected Israel ¹⁴  just as he had warned he would do ¹⁵  through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

2 Kings 17:34

17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship ¹⁶  the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave ¹⁷  the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

2 Kings 17:41

17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

2 Kings 19:3

19:3 “This is what Hezekiah says: ¹⁸  ‘This is a day of distress, insults, ¹⁹  and humiliation, ²⁰  as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. ²¹ 

2 Kings 20:17

20:17 ‘Look, a time is ²²  coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.

[2:3]  ¹ tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”

[2:3]  ² tn Heb “from your head.” The same expression occurs in v. 5.

[4:8]  ³ tn Heb “great,” perhaps “wealthy.”

[4:8]  ⁴ tn Or “she urged him to eat some food.”

[4:8]  ⁵ tn Or “he would turn aside there to eat some food.”

[7:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”

[7:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “the light of the morning.”

[7:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “punishment will find us.”

[14:7]  ⁷ tn Or “struck down.”

[16:6]  ⁹ tc Some prefer to read “the king of Edom” and “for Edom” here. The names Syria (Heb “Aram,” אֲרָם, ’aram) and Edom (אֱדֹם, ’edom) are easily confused in the Hebrew consonantal script.

[16:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “from Elat.”

[16:6]  ¹¹ tc The consonantal text (Kethib), supported by many medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac version, and some mss of the Targum and Vulgate, read “Syrians” (Heb “Arameans”). The marginal reading (Qere), supported by the LXX, Targums, and Vulgate, reads “Edomites.”

[17:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “until.”

[17:23]  ¹² tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”

[17:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “just as he said.”

[17:34]  ¹³ tn Heb “fear.”

[17:34]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “commanded.”

[19:3]  ¹⁵ tn In the Hebrew text this verse begins with “they said to him.”

[19:3]  ¹⁶ tn Or “rebuke,” “correction.”

[19:3]  ¹⁷ tn Or “contempt.”

[19:3]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “when sons come to the cervical opening and there is no strength to give birth.”

[20:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “days are.”