2 Kings 2:9
Context2:9 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “What can I do for you, 1 before I am taken away from you?” Elisha answered, “May I receive a double portion of the prophetic spirit that energizes you.” 2
2 Kings 4:8
Context4:8 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 5:1
Context5:1 Now Naaman, the commander of the king of Syria’s army, was esteemed and respected by his master, 6 for through him the Lord had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease. 7
2 Kings 17:41
Context17:41 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 25:25
Context25:25 But in the seventh month 8 Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, 9 came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, 10 as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.


[2:9] 1 tn Heb “Ask! What can I do for you….?”
[2:9] 2 tn Heb “May a double portion of your spirit come to me.”
[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.”
[5:1] 5 tn Heb “was a great man before his master and lifted up with respect to the face.”
[5:1] 6 tn For a discussion of מְצֹרָע (mÿtsora’), traditionally translated “leprous,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 63. Naaman probably had a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy/Hansen’s disease.
[25:25] 7 sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; Jer 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; Jer 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (Jer 40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (Jer 52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).
[25:25] 8 tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”
[25:25] 9 tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”