2 Kings 4:34-35

4:34 He got up on the bed and spread his body out over ¹  the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s ²  mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin ³  grew warm. 4:35 Elisha ⁴  went back and walked around in the house. ⁵  Then he got up on the bed again ⁶  and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

2 Kings 9:25

9:25 Jehu ordered ⁷  his officer Bidkar, “Pick him up and throw him into the part of the field that once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel. Remember, you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, when the Lord pronounced this judgment on him,

2 Kings 13:19

13:19 The prophet ⁸  got angry at him and said, “If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! ⁹  But now, you will defeat Syria only three times.”

2 Kings 15:25

15:25 His officer Pekah son of Remaliah conspired against him. He and fifty Gileadites assassinated Pekahiah, as well as Argob and Arieh, in Samaria in the fortress of the royal palace. ¹⁰  Pekah then took his place as king.

2 Kings 25:17

25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet ¹¹  high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet ¹²  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

[4:34]  ¹ tn Heb “he went up and lay down over.”

[4:34]  ² tn Heb “his” (also in the next two clauses).

[4:34]  ³ tn Or perhaps, “body”; Heb “flesh.”

[4:35]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:35]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”

[4:35]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he went up.”

[9:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “said to.”

[13:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “man of God.”

[13:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “[It was necessary] to strike five or six times, then you would strike down Syria until destruction.” On the syntax of the infinitive construct, see GKC 349 §114.k.

[15:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “and he struck him down in Samaria in the fortress of the house of the king, Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men from the sons of the Gileadites, and they killed him.”

[25:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

[25:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”