2 Kings 4:16

4:16 He said, “About this time next year ¹  you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”

2 Kings 4:24

4:24 She saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Lead on. ²  Do not stop unless I say so.” ³ 

2 Kings 6:18

6:18 As they approached him, ⁴  Elisha prayed to the Lord, “Strike these people ⁵  with blindness.” ⁶  The Lord ⁷  struck them with blindness as Elisha requested. ⁸ 

2 Kings 10:17

10:17 He went to Samaria and exterminated all the members of Ahab’s family who were still alive in Samaria, ⁹  just as the Lord had announced to Elijah. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 19:16

19:16 Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to the message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God! ¹¹ 

[4:16]  ¹ tn Heb “at this appointed time, at the time [when it is] reviving.” For a discussion of the second phrase see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.

[4:24]  ² tn Heb “lead [the donkey on] and go.”

[4:24]  ³ tn Heb “do not restrain for me the riding unless I say to you.”

[6:18]  ³ tn Heb “and they came down to him.”

[6:18]  ⁴ tn Or “this nation,” perhaps emphasizing the strength of the Syrian army.

[6:18]  ⁵ tn On the basis of the Akkadian etymology of the word, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 74) translate “blinding light.” HALOT 761 s.v. סַנְוֵרִים suggests the glosses “dazzling, deception.”

[6:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “according to the word of Elisha.”

[10:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he struck down all the remaining ones to Ahab in Samaria until he destroyed him.”

[10:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to Elijah.”

[19:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “Hear the words of Sennacherib which he sent to taunt the living God.”