2 Kings 21:23

21:23 Amon’s servants conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.

2 Kings 3:15

3:15 But now, get me a musician.” ¹  When the musician played, the Lord energized him, ² 

2 Kings 14:19

14:19 Conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, ³  so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him ⁴  and they killed him there.

2 Kings 15:10

15:10 Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him; he assassinated him in Ibleam ⁵  and took his place as king.

2 Kings 17:3

17:3 King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened ⁶  him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute.

2 Kings 18:21

18:21 Now look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If a man leans for support on it, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him.

2 Kings 6:31

6:31 Then he said, “May God judge me severely ⁷  if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!” ⁸ 

2 Kings 11:12

11:12 Jehoiada ⁹  led out the king’s son and placed on him the crown and the royal insignia. ¹⁰  They proclaimed him king and poured olive oil on his head. ¹¹  They clapped their hands and cried out, “Long live the king!”

2 Kings 16:12

16:12 When the king arrived back from Damascus and ¹²  saw the altar, he approached it ¹³  and offered a sacrifice on it. ¹⁴ 

2 Kings 19:21

19:21 This is what the Lord says about him: ¹⁵ 

“The virgin daughter Zion ¹⁶ 

despises you, she makes fun of you;

Daughter Jerusalem

shakes her head after you. ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 4:34-35

4:34 He got up on the bed and spread his body out over ¹⁸  the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s ¹⁹  mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin ²⁰  grew warm. 4:35 Elisha ²¹  went back and walked around in the house. ²²  Then he got up on the bed again ²³  and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

2 Kings 9:25

9:25 Jehu ordered ²⁴  his officer Bidkar, “Pick him up and throw him into the part of the field that once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel. Remember, you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, when the Lord pronounced this judgment on him,

2 Kings 13:19

13:19 The prophet ²⁵  got angry at him and said, “If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! ²⁶  But now, you will defeat Syria only three times.”

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. ²⁷  Pekah then took his place as king.

2 Kings 25:17

25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet ²⁸  high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet ²⁹  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

2 Kings 16:15

16:15 King Ahaz ordered Uriah the priest, “On the large altar ³⁰  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.” ³¹ 

[3:15]  ¹ tn The term used refers to one who plays a stringed instrument, perhaps a harp.

[3:15]  ² 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.”

[14:19]  ¹ tn Heb “and they conspired against him [with] a conspiracy in Jerusalem.”

[14:19]  ² tn Heb “and they sent after him to Lachish.”

[15:10]  ¹ tc The MT reads, “and he struck him down before the people and killed him” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). However, the reading קָבָל עָם (qaval ’am), “before the people,” is problematic to some because קָבָל is a relatively late Aramaic term. Nevertheless, the Aramaic term qobel certainly antedates the writing of Kings. The bigger problem seems to be the unnecessary intrusion of an Aramaic word at all here. Most interpreters prefer to follow Lucian’s Greek version and read “in Ibleam” (בְיִבְלְעָם, bÿivle’am). Cf. NAB, TEV.

[17:3]  ¹ tn Heb “went up against.”

[6:31]  ¹ tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”

[6:31]  ² tn Heb “if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

[11:12]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:12]  ² tn The Hebrew term עֵדוּת (’edut) normally means “witness” or “testimony.” Here it probably refers to some tangible symbol of kingship, perhaps a piece of jewelry such as an amulet or neck chain. See the discussion in M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 128. Some suggest that a document is in view, perhaps a copy of the royal protocol or of the stipulations of the Davidic covenant. See HALOT 790-91 s.v. עֵדוּת.

[11:12]  ³ tn Or “they made him king and anointed him.”

[16:12]  ¹ tn Heb “and the king.”

[16:12]  ² tn Heb “the altar.”

[16:12]  ³ tn Or “ascended it.”

[19:21]  ¹ tn Heb “this is the word which the Lord has spoken about him.”

[19:21]  ² sn Zion (Jerusalem) is pictured here as a young, vulnerable daughter whose purity is being threatened by the would-be Assyrian rapist. The personification hints at the reality which the young girls of the city would face if the Assyrians conquer it.

[19:21]  ³ sn Shaking the head was a mocking gesture of derision.

[4:34]  ¹ tn Heb “he went up and lay down over.”

[4:34]  ² tn Heb “his” (also in the next two clauses).

[4:34]  ³ tn Or perhaps, “body”; Heb “flesh.”

[4:35]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:35]  ² tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”

[4:35]  ³ tn Heb “and he went up.”

[9:25]  ¹ tn Heb “said to.”

[13:19]  ¹ tn Heb “man of God.”

[13:19]  ² tn Heb “[It was necessary] to strike five or six times, then you would strike down Syria until destruction.” On the syntax of the infinitive construct, see GKC 349 §114.k.

[15:25]  ¹ 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.”

[25:17]  ¹ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

[25:17]  ² tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”

[16:15]  ¹ tn That is, the newly constructed altar.

[16:15]  ² 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.