2 Kings 6:32

6:32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. ¹  The king ²  sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, ³  Elisha ⁴  said to the leaders, ⁵  “Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?” ⁶  Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.” ⁷ 

2 Kings 7:12

7:12 The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, ⁸  “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”

2 Kings 10:19

10:19 So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. ⁹  None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of them who fail to appear will lose their lives.” But Jehu was tricking them ¹⁰  so he could destroy the servants of Baal.

2 Kings 12:18

12:18 King Jehoash of Judah collected all the sacred items that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, as well as his own sacred items and all the gold that could be found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He sent it all ¹¹  to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew ¹²  from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 15:29

15:29 During Pekah’s reign over Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, ¹³  Gilead, and Galilee, including all the territory of Naphtali. He deported the people ¹⁴  to Assyria.

2 Kings 18:14

18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty. ¹⁵  If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” ¹⁶  So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents ¹⁷  of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 18:17

18:17 The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser ¹⁸  from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, ¹⁹  along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went ²⁰  and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth. ²¹ 

2 Kings 22:13

22:13 “Go, seek an oracle from ²²  the Lord for me and the people – for all Judah. Find out about ²³  the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us, ²⁴  because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this scroll by doing all that it instructs us to do.” ²⁵ 

2 Kings 25:19

25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five ²⁶  of the king’s advisers ²⁷  who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens ²⁸  for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

2 Kings 25:23

25:23 All of the officers of the Judahite army ²⁹  and their troops heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah to govern. So they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. The officers who came were Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite.

[6:32]  ¹ tn Heb “and the elders were sitting with him.”

[6:32]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:32]  ³ tn Heb “sent a man from before him, before the messenger came to him.”

[6:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “elders.”

[6:32]  ⁶ tn Heb “Do you see that this son of an assassin has sent to remove my head?”

[6:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”

[7:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 13).

[10:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests summon to me.”

[10:19]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “acted with deception [or, ‘trickery’].”

[12:18]  ²² tn The object (“it all”) is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[12:18]  ²³ tn Heb “went up.”

[15:29]  ²⁹ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[15:29]  ³⁰ tn Heb “them.”

[18:14]  ³⁶ tn Or “I have done wrong.”

[18:14]  ³⁷ tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

[18:14]  ³⁸ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.

[18:17]  ⁴³ sn For a discussion of these titles see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 229-30.

[18:17]  ⁴⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[18:17]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “and they went up and came.”

[18:17]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “the field of the washer.”

[22:13]  ⁵⁰ tn Or “inquire of.”

[22:13]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “concerning.”

[22:13]  ⁵² tn Heb “for great is the anger of the Lord which has been ignited against us.”

[22:13]  ⁵³ tn Heb “by doing all that is written concerning us.” Perhaps עָלֵינוּ (’alenu), “concerning us,” should be altered to עָלָיו (’alav), “upon it,” in which case one could translate, “by doing all that is written in it.”

[25:19]  ⁵⁷ tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”

[25:19]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”

[25:19]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “the people of the land.”

[25:23]  ⁶⁴ tn Heb “of the army.” The word “Judahite” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.