2 Kings 6:21

6:21 When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “Should I strike them down, ¹  my master?” ² 

2 Kings 13:14

Elisha Makes One Final Prophecy

13:14 Now Elisha had a terminal illness. ³  King Joash of Israel went down to visit him. ⁴  He wept before him and said, “My father, my father! The chariot ⁵  and horsemen of Israel!” ⁶ 

2 Kings 16:7

16:7 Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your dependent. ⁷  March up and rescue me from the power ⁸  of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked ⁹  me.”

2 Kings 16:1

Ahaz’s Reign over Judah

16:1 In the seventeenth year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah, Jotham’s son Ahaz became king over Judah.

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh ¹⁰  day of the fifth month, ¹¹  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ¹²  who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. ¹³ 

Philemon 1:14

1:14 However, ¹⁴  without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your good deed would not be out of compulsion, but from your own willingness.

[6:21]  ¹ tn Heb “Should I strike them down? I will strike them down.” In the Hebrew text the first person imperfect form is repeated; the first form has the interrogative he prefixed to it; the second does not. It is likely that the second form should be omitted as dittographic or that the first should be emended to an infinitive absolute.

[6:21]  ² tn Heb “my father.” The king addresses the prophet in this way to indicate his respect. See 2 Kgs 2:12.

[13:14]  ³ tn Heb “Now Elisha was ill with the illness by which he would die.”

[13:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “went down to him.”

[13:14]  ⁵ tn Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”

[13:14]  ⁶ sn By comparing Elisha to a one-man army, the king emphasizes the power of the prophetic word. See the note at 2:12.

[16:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “son.” Both terms (“servant” and “son”) reflect Ahaz’s subordinate position as Tiglath-pileser’s subject.

[16:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “hand, palm.”

[16:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “who have arisen against.”

[25:8]  ¹⁰ tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

[25:8]  ¹¹ sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:8]  ¹² tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[25:8]  ¹³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[1:14]  ¹⁴ tn Though the Greek text does not read the term “however,” it is clearly implied and thus supplied in the English translation to accent the contrastive nature of Paul’s statement.