2 Kings 3:14

3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all ¹  lives (whom I serve), ²  if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah, ³  I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you. ⁴ 

2 Kings 4:29

4:29 Elisha ⁵  told Gehazi, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff, ⁶  and go! Don’t stop to exchange greetings with anyone! ⁷  Place my staff on the child’s face.”

2 Kings 4:31

4:31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha ⁸  he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

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 ⁹  altar.

2 Kings 23:13

23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, ¹⁰  that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.

2 Kings 23:27

23:27 The Lord announced, “I will also spurn Judah, ¹¹  just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose – both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, “I will live there.” ¹² 

[3:14]  ¹ tn Traditionally “the Lord of hosts.”

[3:14]  ² tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

[3:14]  ³ tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”

[3:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”

[4:29]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:29]  ⁶ tn Heb “take my staff in your hand.”

[4:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “If you meet a man, do not greet him with a blessing; if a man greets you with a blessing, do not answer.”

[4:31]  ⁹ tn Heb “to meet him.”

[16:14]  ¹³ tn The word “new” is added in the translation for clarification.

[23:13]  ¹⁷ sn This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mashÿkhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mashÿkhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.

[23:27]  ²¹ tn Heb “Also Judah I will turn away from my face.”

[23:27]  ²² tn Heb “My name will be there.”