Discovery Box2 Kings 4:38
Context4:38 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 9:17
Context9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu’s troops approaching. 4 He said, “I see troops!” 5 Jehoram ordered, 6 “Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, ‘Is everything all right?’” 7
2 Kings 9:26
Context9:26 ‘“Know for sure that I saw the shed blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday,” says the Lord, “and that I will give you what you deserve right here in this plot of land,” 8 says the Lord.’ So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as the Lord said.” 9
2 Kings 11:19
Context11:19 He took the officers of the units of hundreds, the Carians, the royal bodyguard, and all the people of land, and together they led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Gate of the Royal Bodyguard, 10 and the king 11 sat down on the royal throne.
2 Kings 12:9
Context12:9 Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of 12 the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 18:26
Context18:26 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, 13 for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect 14 in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
2 Kings 23:12
Context23:12 The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. He crushed them up 15 and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.
2 Kings 25:27
Context25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh 16 day of the twelfth month, 17 King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 18 King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 19 from prison.
[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.”
[9:17] 4 tn Heb “the quantity [of the men] of Jehu, when he approached.” Elsewhere שִׁפְעַה (shif’ah), “quantity,” is used of a quantity of camels (Isa 60:6) or horses (Ezek 26:10) and of an abundance of water (Job 22:11; 38:34).
[9:17] 5 tn The term שִׁפְעַת (shifat) appears to be a construct form of the noun, but no genitive follows.
[9:17] 7 tn Heb “Get a rider and send [him] to meet him and let him ask, ‘Is there peace?’”
[9:26] 7 tn Heb “and I will repay you in this plot of land.”
[9:26] 8 tn Heb “according to the word of the
[11:19] 10 tn Heb “the Gate of the Runners of the House of the King.”
[11:19] 11 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[12:9] 13 tn Heb “on the right side of the altar as a man enters.”
[18:26] 16 sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.
[23:12] 19 tc The MT reads, “he ran from there,” which makes little if any sense in this context. Some prefer to emend the verbal form (Qal of רוּץ [ruts], “run”) to a Hiphil of רוּץ with third plural suffix and translate, “he quickly removed them” (see BDB 930 s.v. רוּץ, and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings [AB], 289). The suffix could have been lost in MT by haplography (note the mem [מ] that immediately follows the verb on the form מִשֳׁם, misham, “from there”). Another option, the one reflected in the translation, is to emend the verb to a Piel of רָצַץ (ratsats), “crush,” with third plural suffix.
[25:27] 22 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
[25:27] 23 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561
[25:27] 24 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
[25:27] 25 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.
