2 Kings 4:38

Elisha Makes a Meal Edible

4:38 Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him ¹  and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire ²  and boil some stew for the prophets.” ³ 

2 Kings 6:1-2

Elisha Makes an Ax Head Float

6:1 Some of the prophets ⁴  said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you ⁵  is too cramped ⁶  for us. 6:2 Let’s go to the Jordan. Each of us will get a log from there and we will build a meeting place for ourselves there.” He said, “Go.”

2 Kings 7:3

7:3 Now four men with a skin disease ⁷  were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, “Why are we just sitting here waiting to die? ⁸ 

2 Kings 9:5

9:5 When he arrived, the officers of the army were sitting there. ⁹  So he said, “I have a message for you, O officer.” ¹⁰  Jehu asked, “For which one of us?” ¹¹  He replied, “For you, O officer.”

2 Kings 13:5

13:5 The Lord provided a deliverer ¹²  for Israel and they were freed from Syria’s power. ¹³  The Israelites once more lived in security. ¹⁴ 

2 Kings 13:13

13:13 Joash passed away ¹⁵  and Jeroboam succeeded him on the throne. ¹⁶  Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 14:10

14:10 You thoroughly defeated Edom ¹⁷  and it has gone to your head! ¹⁸  Gloat over your success, ¹⁹  but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” ²⁰ 

2 Kings 15:12

15:12 His assassination brought to fulfillment the Lord’s word to Jehu, ²¹  “Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” ²²  That is exactly what happened. ²³ 

2 Kings 17:25

17:25 When they first moved in, ²⁴  they did not worship ²⁵  the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.

2 Kings 17:28-29

17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. ²⁶  He taught them how to worship ²⁷  the Lord.

17:29 But each of these nations made ²⁸  its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria ²⁹  had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

2 Kings 19:26

19:26 Their residents are powerless, ³⁰ 

they are terrified and ashamed.

They are as short-lived as plants in the field,

or green vegetation. ³¹ 

They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops ³² 

when it is scorched by the east wind. ³³ 

2 Kings 25:24

25:24 Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. ³⁴  He said, “You don’t need to be afraid to submit to the Babylonian officials. Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you.”

[4:38]  ¹ tn Heb “the sons of the prophets were sitting before him.”

[4:38]  ² tn The words “the fire” are added for clarification.

[4:38]  ³ tn Heb “sons of the prophets.”

[6:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”

[6:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “sit before you.”

[6:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “narrow, tight.”

[7:3]  ⁷ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 5:1.

[7:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “until we die.”

[9:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he arrived and look, the officers of the army were sitting.”

[9:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “[there is] a word for me to you, O officer.”

[9:5]  ¹² tn Heb “To whom from all of us?”

[13:5]  ¹³ sn The identity of this unnamed “deliverer” is debated. For options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 143.

[13:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and they went from under the hand of Syria.”

[13:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as before.”

[13:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[13:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “sat on his throne.”

[14:10]  ¹⁹ tn Or “you have indeed defeated Edom.”

[14:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and your heart has lifted you up.”

[14:10]  ²¹ tn Heb “be glorified.”

[14:10]  ²² tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”

[15:12]  ²² tn Heb “It was the word of the Lord which he spoke to Jehu, saying.”

[15:12]  ²³ tn “sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.”

[15:12]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and it was so.”

[17:25]  ²⁵ tn Heb “in the beginning of their living there.”

[17:25]  ²⁶ tn Heb “fear.”

[17:28]  ²⁸ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[17:28]  ²⁹ tn Heb “fear.”

[17:29]  ³¹ sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.

[17:29]  ³² tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.

[19:26]  ³⁴ tn Heb “short of hand.”

[19:26]  ³⁵ tn Heb “they are plants in the field and green vegetation.” The metaphor emphasizes how short-lived these seemingly powerful cities really were. See Ps 90:5-6; Isa 40:6-8, 24.

[19:26]  ³⁶ tn Heb “[they are] grass on the rooftops.” See the preceding note.

[19:26]  ³⁷ tc The Hebrew text has “scorched before the standing grain” (perhaps meaning “before it reaches maturity”), but it is preferable to emend קָמָה (qamah), “standing grain,” to קָדִים (qadim), “east wind” (with the support of 1Q Isa^a in Isa 37:27).

[25:24]  ³⁷ tn The words “so as to give them…some assurance of safety” are supplied in the translation for clarification.