2 Kings 5:15

5:15 He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman ¹  came and stood before him. He said, “For sure ²  I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.”

2 Kings 8:1

Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman

8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, ³  for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

2 Kings 8:6

8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. ⁴  The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, ⁵  “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

2 Kings 11:14

11:14 Then she saw ⁶  the king standing by the pillar, according to custom. The officers stood beside the king with their trumpets and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!” ⁷ 

2 Kings 11:18-19

11:18 All the people of the land went and demolished ⁸  the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols ⁹  to bits. ¹⁰  They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest ¹¹  then placed guards at the Lord’s temple. 11:19 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, ¹²  and the king ¹³  sat down on the royal throne.

2 Kings 15:5

15:5 The Lord afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease ¹⁴  until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, ¹⁵  while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.

2 Kings 17:27

17:27 So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you ¹⁶  deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 23:30

23:30 His servants transported his dead body ¹⁸  from Megiddo in a chariot and brought it to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his tomb. The people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, poured olive oil on his head, ¹⁹  and made him king in his father’s place.

2 Kings 24:14-15

24:14 He deported all the residents of Jerusalem, including all the officials and all the soldiers (10,000 people in all). This included all the craftsmen and those who worked with metal. No one was left except for the poorest among the people of the land. 24:15 He deported Jehoiachin from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with the king’s mother and wives, his eunuchs, and the high-ranking officials of the land. ²⁰ 

[5:15]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:15]  ² tn Heb “look.”

[8:1]  ³ tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”

[8:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

[8:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

[11:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “and she saw, and look.”

[11:14]  ⁸ tn Or “conspiracy, conspiracy.”

[11:18]  ⁹ tn Or “tore down.”

[11:18]  ¹⁰ tn Or “images.”

[11:18]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew construction translated “smashed…to bits” is emphatic. The adverbial infinitive absolute (הֵיטֵב [hetev], “well”) accompanying the Piel form of the verb שָׁבַר (shavar), “break,” suggests thorough demolition.

[11:18]  ¹² tn Heb “the priest.” Jehoiada’s name is added for clarification.

[11:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the Gate of the Runners of the House of the King.”

[11:19]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:5]  ¹³ tn Traditionally, “he was a leper.” But see the note at 5:1.

[15:5]  ¹⁴ 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.

[17:27]  ¹⁵ tc The second plural subject may refer to the leaders of the Assyrian army. However, some prefer to read “whom I deported,” changing the verb to a first person singular form with a third masculine plural pronominal suffix. This reading has some support from Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic witnesses.

[17:27]  ¹⁶ tc Heb “and let them go and let them live there, and let him teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” The two plural verbs seem inconsistent with the preceding and following contexts, where only one priest is sent back to Samaria. The singular has the support of Greek, Syriac, and Latin witnesses.

[23:30]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “him, dead.”

[23:30]  ¹⁸ tn Or “anointed him.”

[24:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and he deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; the mother of the king and the wives of the king and his eunuchs and the mighty of the land he led into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.”