2 Kings 2:8

2:8 Elijah took his cloak, folded it up, and hit the water with it. The water divided, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

2 Kings 6:5

6:5 As one of them was felling a log, the ax head ¹  dropped into the water. He shouted, “Oh no, ²  my master! It was borrowed!”

2 Kings 6:9

6:9 But the prophet sent this message to the king of Israel, “Make sure you don’t pass through this place because Syria is invading there.”

2 Kings 11:5

11:5 He ordered them, “This is what you must do. One third of the unit that is on duty during the Sabbath will guard the royal palace.

2 Kings 19:24

19:24 I dug wells and drank

water in foreign lands. ³ 

With the soles of my feet I dried up

all the rivers of Egypt.’

2 Kings 23:10

23:10 The king ⁴  ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech. ⁵ 

[6:5]  ¹ tn Heb “iron.”

[6:5]  ² tn Or “ah.”

[19:24]  ¹ tn Heb “I dug and drank foreign waters.”

[23:10]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:10]  ² sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.