Discovery Box2 Kings 3:11
Context3:11 Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the Lord here that we might seek the Lord’s direction?” 1 One of the servants of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shapat is here; he used to be Elijah’s servant.” 2
2 Kings 8:1
Context8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, 3 for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”
2 Kings 11:2
Context11:2 So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked 4 him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. 5 So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution. 6
2 Kings 11:4
Context11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned 7 the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians 8 and the royal bodyguard. 9 He met with them 10 in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement 11 with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.
2 Kings 14:9
Context14:9 King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal 12 of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn. 13
2 Kings 14:25
Context14:25 He restored the border of Israel from Lebo Hamath in the north to the sea of the Arabah in the south, 14 in accordance with the word of the Lord God of Israel announced through 15 his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.
2 Kings 15:25
Context15:25 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
Context18:26 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.”
2 Kings 21:7
Context21:7 He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. 19
2 Kings 23:15
Context23:15 He also tore down the altar in Bethel 20 at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. 21 He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole. 22
2 Kings 23:30
Context23:30 His servants transported his dead body 23 from Megiddo in a chariot and brought it to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his tomb. The people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, poured olive oil on his head, 24 and made him king in his father’s place.
[3:11] 1 tn Heb “that we might inquire of the
[3:11] 2 tn Heb “who poured water on the hands of Elijah.” This refers to one of the typical tasks of a servant.
[8:1] 3 tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”
[11:2] 6 tn Heb “him and his nurse in an inner room of beds.” The verb is missing in the Hebrew text. The parallel passage in 2 Chr 22:11 has “and she put” at the beginning of the clause. M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 126) regard the Chronicles passage as an editorial attempt to clarify the difficulty of the original text. They prefer to take “him and his nurse” as objects of the verb “stole” and understand “in the bedroom” as the place where the royal descendants were executed. The phrase בַּחֲדַר הַמִּטּוֹת (bakhadar hammittot), “an inner room of beds,” is sometimes understood as referring to a bedroom (HALOT 293 s.v. חֶדֶר), though some prefer to see here a “room where the covers and cloths were kept for the beds (HALOT 573 s.v. מִטָּת). In either case, it may have been a temporary hideout, for v. 3 indicates that the child hid in the temple for six years.
[11:2] 7 tn Heb “and they hid him from Athaliah and he was not put to death.” The subject of the plural verb (“they hid”) is probably indefinite.
[11:4] 7 tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”
[11:4] 8 sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.
[11:4] 9 tn Heb “the runners.”
[11:4] 10 tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”
[14:9] 9 tn Heb “the animal of the field.”
[14:9] 10 sn Judah is the thorn in the allegory. Amaziah’s success has deceived him into thinking he is on the same level as the major powers in the area (symbolized by the cedar). In reality he is not capable of withstanding an attack by a real military power such as Israel (symbolized by the wild animal).
[14:25] 11 tn The phrases “in the north” and “in the south” are added in the translation for clarification.
[14:25] 12 tn Heb “which he spoke by the hand of.”
[15:25] 13 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] 15 sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.
[21:7] 17 tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name perpetually (or perhaps “forever”).”
[23:15] 19 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
[23:15] 20 tn Heb “And also the altar that is in Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin, also that altar and the high place he tore down.” The more repetitive Hebrew text is emphatic.
[23:15] 21 tn Heb “he burned the high place, crushing to dust, and he burned the Asherah pole.” High places per se are never referred to as being burned elsewhere. בָּמָה (bamah) here stands by metonymy for the combustible items located on the high place. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.
