2 Kings 3:13

3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here? ¹  Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”

2 Kings 5:1

Elisha Heals a Syrian General

5:1 Now Naaman, the commander of the king of Syria’s army, was esteemed and respected by his master, ²  for through him the Lord had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease. ³ 

2 Kings 5:17

5:17 Naaman said, “If not, then please give your servant a load of dirt, enough for a pair of mules to carry, ⁴  for your servant will never again offer a burnt offering or sacrifice to a god other than the Lord. ⁵ 

2 Kings 5:22-23

5:22 He answered, “Everything is fine. ⁶  My master sent me with this message, ‘Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country. ⁷  Please give them a talent ⁸  of silver and two suits of clothes.’” 5:23 Naaman said, “Please accept two talents of silver. ⁹  He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 6:28

6:28 Then the king asked her, “What’s your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’

2 Kings 8:6

8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. ¹¹  The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, ¹²  “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

2 Kings 12:7

12:7 So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage.” ¹³ 

2 Kings 12:11

12:11 They would then hand over ¹⁴  the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen ¹⁵  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,

2 Kings 15:20

15:20 Menahem got this silver by taxing all the wealthy men in Israel; he took fifty shekels of silver from each one of them and paid it to the king of Assyria. ¹⁶  Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.

2 Kings 16:14

16:14 He moved the bronze altar that stood in the Lord’s presence from the front of the temple (between the altar and the Lord’s temple) and put it on the north side of the new ¹⁷  altar.

2 Kings 16:17

16:17 King Ahaz took off the frames of the movable stands, and removed the basins from them. He took “The Sea” ¹⁸  down from the bronze bulls that supported it ¹⁹  and put it on the pavement.

2 Kings 19:10

19:10 “Tell King Hezekiah of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust mislead you when he says, “Jerusalem will not be handed over ²⁰  to the king of Assyria.”

2 Kings 21:8

21:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, ²¹  provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law my servant Moses ordered them to obey.”

2 Kings 22:8-9

22:8 Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it. 22:9 Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, ²²  “Your servants melted down the silver in the temple ²³  and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple.”

2 Kings 23:5

23:5 He eliminated ²⁴  the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to offer sacrifices ²⁵  on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the area right around Jerusalem. (They offered sacrifices ²⁶  to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the constellations, and all the stars in the sky.)

2 Kings 23:11

23:11 He removed from the entrance to the Lord’s temple the statues of horses ²⁷  that the kings of Judah had placed there in honor of the sun god. (They were kept near the room of Nathan Melech the eunuch, which was situated among the courtyards.) ²⁸  He burned up the chariots devoted to the sun god. ²⁹ 

[3:13]  ¹ tn Or “What do we have in common?” The text reads literally, “What to me and to you?”

[5:1]  ² tn Heb “was a great man before his master and lifted up with respect to the face.”

[5:1]  ³ 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.

[5:17]  ³ tn Heb “and [if] not, may there be given to your servant a load [for] a pair of mules, earth.”

[5:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “for your servant will not again make a burnt offering and sacrifice to other gods, only to the Lord.”

[5:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “peace.”

[5:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “Look now, here, two servants came to me from the Ephraimite hill country, from the sons of the prophets.”

[5:22]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 75 pounds of silver (cf. NCV, NLT, CEV).

[5:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “Be resolved and accept two talents.”

[5:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “before him.”

[8:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

[8:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

[12:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers, because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”

[12:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “would give.”

[12:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

[15:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “and Menahem brought out the silver over Israel, over the prominent men of means, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver for each man.”

[16:14]  ¹⁰ tn The word “new” is added in the translation for clarification.

[16:17]  ¹¹ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.

[16:17]  ¹² tn Heb “that [were] under it.”

[19:10]  ¹² tn Heb “will not be given.”

[21:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I gave to their fathers.”

[22:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “returned the king a word and said.”

[22:9]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “that was found in the house.”

[23:5]  ¹⁵ tn Perhaps, “destroyed.”

[23:5]  ¹⁶ tn Or “burn incense.”

[23:5]  ¹⁷ tn Or “burned incense.”

[23:11]  ¹⁶ tn The MT simply reads “the horses.” The words “statues of” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[23:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “who/which was in the […?].” The meaning of the Hebrew term פַּרְוָרִים (parvarim), translated here “courtyards,” is uncertain. The relative clause may indicate where the room was located or explain who Nathan Melech was, “the eunuch who was in the courtyards.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 288-89, who translate “the officer of the precincts.”

[23:11]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and the chariots of the sun he burned with fire.”