Discovery Box2 Kings 4:2
Context4:2 Elisha said to her, “What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil.”
2 Kings 4:27
Context4:27 But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said, “Leave her alone, for she is very upset. 1 The Lord has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn’t tell me about it.”
2 Kings 4:31
Context4:31 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 2 he told him, “The child did not wake up.”
2 Kings 6:11-12
Context6:11 This made the king of Syria upset. 3 So he summoned his advisers 4 and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.” 5 6:12 One of his advisers said, “No, my master, O king. The prophet Elisha who lives in Israel keeps telling the king of Israel the things you say in your bedroom.”
2 Kings 7:9-10
Context7:9 Then they said to one another, “It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone. 6 If we wait until dawn, 7 we’ll be punished. 8 So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.” 7:10 So they went and called out to the gatekeepers 9 of the city. They told them, “We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn’t even hear a man’s voice. 10 But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up.” 11
2 Kings 9:15
Context9:15 But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians 12 when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. 13 Jehu told his supporters, 14 “If you really want me to be king, 15 then don’t let anyone escape from the city to go and warn Jezreel.”
2 Kings 9:18
Context9:18 So the horseman 16 went to meet him and said, “This is what the king says, ‘Is everything all right?’” 17 Jehu replied, “None of your business! 18 Follow me.” The watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but hasn’t started back.”
2 Kings 9:36
Context9:36 When they went back and told him, he said, “The Lord’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, 19 ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.
2 Kings 18:37
Context18:37 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn 20 and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.
[4:27] 1 tn Heb “her soul [i.e., ‘disposition’] is bitter.”
[4:31] 1 tn Heb “to meet him.”
[6:11] 1 tn Heb “and the heart of the king of Syria was stirred up over this thing.”
[6:11] 3 tn Heb “Will you not tell me who among us [is] for the king of Israel?” The sarcastic rhetorical question expresses the king’s suspicion.
[7:9] 1 tn Heb “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”
[7:9] 2 tn Heb “the light of the morning.”
[7:9] 3 tn Heb “punishment will find us.”
[7:10] 1 tn The MT has a singular form (“gatekeeper”), but the context suggests a plural. The pronoun that follows (“them”) is plural and a plural noun appears in v. 11. The Syriac Peshitta and the Targum have the plural here.
[7:10] 2 tn Heb “and, look, there was no man or voice of a man there.”
[7:10] 3 tn Heb “but the horses are tied up and the donkeys are tied up and the tents are as they were.”
[9:15] 1 tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”
[9:15] 2 sn See 2 Kgs 8:28-29a.
[9:15] 3 tn The words “his supporters” are added for clarification.
[9:15] 4 tn Heb “If this is your desire.” נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) refers here to the seat of the emotions and will. For other examples of this use of the word, see BDB 660-61 s.v.
[9:18] 1 tn Heb “the rider of the horse.”
[9:18] 2 tn Heb “Is there peace?”
[9:18] 3 tn Heb “What concerning you and concerning peace?” That is, “What concern is that to you?”
[9:36] 1 tn Heb “It is the word of the
