2 Kings 4:35

4:35 Elisha ¹  went back and walked around in the house. ²  Then he got up on the bed again ³  and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

2 Kings 11:4

11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned ⁴  the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians ⁵  and the royal bodyguard. ⁶  He met with them ⁷  in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement ⁸  with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.

2 Kings 14:13

14:13 King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, in Beth Shemesh. He ⁹  attacked ¹⁰  Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 15:5

15:5 The Lord afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease ¹²  until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, ¹³  while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.

2 Kings 22:8-9

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. 22:9 Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, ¹⁴  “Your servants melted down the silver in the temple ¹⁵  and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple.”

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 ¹⁶  all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 23:15

23:15 He also tore down the altar in Bethel ¹⁷  at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. ¹⁸  He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole. ¹⁹ 

2 Kings 23:19

23:19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. ²⁰  He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. ²¹ 

2 Kings 25:13

25:13 The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the Lord’s temple, as well as the movable stands and the big bronze basin called the “The Sea.” ²²  They took the bronze to Babylon.

[4:35]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:35]  ² tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”

[4:35]  ³ tn Heb “and he went up.”

[11:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”

[11:4]  ⁵ sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.

[11:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “the runners.”

[11:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”

[11:4]  ⁸ tn Or “covenant.”

[14:13]  ⁷ tc The MT has the plural form of the verb, but the final vav (ו) is virtually dittographic. The word that immediately follows in the Hebrew text begins with a yod (י). The form should be emended to the singular, which is consistent in number with the verb (“he broke down”) that follows.

[14:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “came to.”

[14:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “four hundred cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

[15:5]  ¹⁰ tn Traditionally, “he was a leper.” But see the note at 5:1.

[15:5]  ¹¹ tn The precise meaning of בֵית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhofÿshit), “house of […?],” is uncertain. For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.

[22:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “returned the king a word and said.”

[22:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “that was found in the house.”

[23:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “read in their ears.”

[23:15]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[23:15]  ²⁰ tn Heb “And also the altar that is in Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin, also that altar and the high place he tore down.” The more repetitive Hebrew text is emphatic.

[23:15]  ²¹ tn Heb “he burned the high place, crushing to dust, and he burned the Asherah pole.” High places per se are never referred to as being burned elsewhere. בָּמָה (bamah) here stands by metonymy for the combustible items located on the high place. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.

[23:19]  ²² tc Heb “which the kings of Israel had made, angering.” The object has been accidentally omitted in the MT. It appears in the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate versions.

[23:19]  ²³ tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”

[25:13]  ²⁵ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.