2 Kings 2:9

2:9 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 8:21

8:21 Joram ³  crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers. ⁴  The Israelite army retreated to their homeland. ⁵ 

2 Kings 10:23

10:23 Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went to the temple of Baal. Jehu ⁶  said to the servants of Baal, “Make sure there are no servants of the Lord here with you; there must be only servants of Baal.” ⁷ 

2 Kings 11:9

11:9 The officers of the units of hundreds did just as ⁸  Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath, and reported ⁹  to Jehoiada the priest.

2 Kings 12:21

12:21 His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. ¹⁰  He was buried ¹¹  with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 13:12

13:12 The rest of the events of Joash’s ¹²  reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ¹³ 

2 Kings 14:15

14:15 The rest of the events of Jehoash’s ¹⁴  reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁵ 

2 Kings 15:25

15:25 His officer Pekah son of Remaliah conspired against him. He and fifty Gileadites assassinated Pekahiah, as well as Argob and Arieh, in Samaria in the fortress of the royal palace. ¹⁶  Pekah then took his place as king.

2 Kings 18:26-27

18:26 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ¹⁷  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ¹⁸  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” 18:27 But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. ¹⁹  His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.” ²⁰ 

[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.”

[8:21]  ³ sn Joram is a short form of the name Jehoram.

[8:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he arose at night and defeated Edom, who had surrounded him, and the chariot officers.” The Hebrew text as it stands gives the impression that Joram was surrounded and launched a victorious night counterattack. It would then be quite natural to understand the last statement in the verse to refer to an Edomite retreat. Yet v. 22 goes on to state that the Edomite revolt was successful. Therefore, if the MT is retained, it may be better to understand the final statement in v. 21 as a reference to an Israelite retreat (made in spite of the success described in the preceding sentence). The translation above assumes an emendation of the Hebrew text. Adding a third masculine singular pronominal suffix to the accusative sign before Edom (reading אֶתוֹ [’eto], “him,” instead of just אֶת [’et]) and taking Edom as the subject of verbs allows one to translate the verse in a way that is more consistent with the context, which depicts an Israelite defeat, not victory. There is, however, no evidence for this emendation.

[8:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the people fled to their tents.”

[10:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “Search carefully and observe so that there are not here with you any servants of the Lord, only the servants of Baal.”

[11:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “according to all that.”

[11:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “came.”

[12:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “struck him down and he died.”

[12:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they buried him.”

[13:12]  ¹¹ sn Jehoash and Joash are alternate forms of the same name.

[13:12]  ¹² tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Joash, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”

[14:15]  ¹³ sn Jehoash and Joash are alternate forms of the same name.

[14:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoash, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”

[15:25]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and he struck him down in Samaria in the fortress of the house of the king, Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men from the sons of the Gileadites, and they killed him.”

[18:26]  ¹⁷ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.

[18:26]  ¹⁸ tn Or “Hebrew.”

[18:27]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.

[18:27]  ²⁰ tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”