2 Kings 3:27

3:27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel, ¹  so they broke off the attack ²  and returned to their homeland.

2 Kings 4:8

Elisha Gives Life to a Boy

4:8 One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent ³  woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. ⁴  So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal. ⁵ 

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, ⁶  for through him the Lord had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease. ⁷ 

2 Kings 5:13

5:13 His servants approached and said to him, “O master, ⁸  if the prophet had told you to do some difficult task, ⁹  you would have been willing to do it. ¹⁰  It seems you should be happy that he simply said, “Wash and you will be healed.” ¹¹ 

2 Kings 7:6

7:6 The Lord had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!”

2 Kings 8:13

8:13 Hazael said, “How could your servant, who is as insignificant as a dog, accomplish this great military victory?” ¹²  Elisha answered, “The Lord has revealed to me that you will be the king of Syria.” ¹³ 

2 Kings 12:10

12:10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary ¹⁴  and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up. ¹⁵ 

2 Kings 17:21

17:21 He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. ¹⁶  Jeroboam drove Israel away ¹⁷  from the Lord and encouraged them to commit a serious sin. ¹⁸ 

2 Kings 17:36

17:36 Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; ¹⁹  bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.

2 Kings 18:19

18:19 The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence? ²⁰ 

2 Kings 22:8

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.

2 Kings 23:2

23:2 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud ²¹  all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.

[3:27]  ¹ tn Heb “there was great anger against Israel.”

[3:27]  ² tn Heb “they departed from him.”

[4:8]  ³ tn Heb “great,” perhaps “wealthy.”

[4:8]  ⁴ tn Or “she urged him to eat some food.”

[4:8]  ⁵ tn Or “he would turn aside there to eat some food.”

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

[5:1]  ⁶ 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.

[5:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “my father,” reflecting the perspective of each individual servant. To address their master as “father” would emphasize his authority and express their respect. See BDB 3 s.v. אָב and the similar idiomatic use of “father” in 2 Kgs 2:12.

[5:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “a great thing.”

[5:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “would you not do [it]?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you would.”

[5:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “How much more [when] he said, “Wash and be healed.” The second imperative (“be healed”) states the expected result of obeying the first (‘wash”).

[8:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “Indeed, what is your servant, a dog, that he could do this great thing?” With his reference to a dog, Hazael is not denying that he is a “dog” and protesting that he would never commit such a dastardly “dog-like” deed. Rather, as Elisha’s response indicates, Hazael is suggesting that he, like a dog, is too insignificant to ever be in a position to lead such conquests.

[8:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “The Lord has shown me you [as] king over Syria.”

[12:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the king’s scribe.”

[12:10]  ¹² tn Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the Lord.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to make better sense in English, since it seems more logical to count the money before bagging it (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

[17:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king.”

[17:21]  ¹⁴ tc The consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the verb is נָדָא (nada’), an alternate form of נָדָה (nadah), “push away.” The marginal reading (Qere) assumes the verb נָדָח (nadakh), “drive away.”

[17:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “a great sin.”

[17:36]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and outstretched arm.”

[18:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “What is this object of trust in which you are trusting?”

[23:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “read in their ears.”