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 8:5

8:5 While Gehazi ⁹  was telling the king how Elisha ¹⁰  had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. ¹¹  Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”

2 Kings 10:15

10:15 When he left there, he met ¹²  Jehonadab, son of Rekab, who had been looking for him. ¹³  Jehu greeted him and asked, ¹⁴  “Are you as committed to me as I am to you?” ¹⁵  Jehonadab answered, “I am!” Jehu replied, “If so, give me your hand.” ¹⁶  So he offered his hand and Jehu ¹⁷  pulled him up into the chariot.

2 Kings 10:19

10:19 So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. ¹⁸  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 ¹⁹  so he could destroy the servants of Baal.

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. ²⁰  If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” ²¹  So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents ²²  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 ²³  from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, ²⁴  along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went ²⁵  and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth. ²⁶ 

2 Kings 23:4

23:4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests, ²⁷  and the guards ²⁸  to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of ²⁹  Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky. ³⁰  The king ³¹  burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces ³²  of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. ³³ 

2 Kings 25:23

25:23 All of the officers of the Judahite army ³⁴  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).

[8:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and look, the woman whose son he had brought back to life was crying out to the king for her house and her field.”

[10:15]  ²² tn Heb “found.”

[10:15]  ²³ tn Heb “and he went from there and found Jehonadab son of Rekab [who was coming] to meet him.”

[10:15]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and he blessed him and said to him.”

[10:15]  ²⁵ tn Heb “Is there with your heart [what is] right, as my heart [is] with your heart?”

[10:15]  ²⁶ tc Heb “Jehonadab said, ‘There is and there is. Give your hand.’” If the text is allowed to stand, there are two possible ways to understand the syntax of וָיֵשׁ (vayesh), “and there is”: (1) The repetition of יֵשׁ (yesh, “there is and there is”) could be taken as emphatic, “indeed I am.” In this case, the entire statement could be taken as Jehonadab’s words or one could understand the words “give your hand” as Jehu’s. In the latter case the change in speakers is unmarked. (2) וָיֵשׁ begins Jehu’s response and has a conditional force, “if you are.” In this case, the transition in speakers is unmarked. However, it is possible that וַיֹּאמֶר (vayyo’mer), “and he said,” or וַיֹּאמֶר יֵהוּא (vayyo’mer yehu), “and Jehu said,” originally appeared between יֵשׁ and וָיֵשׁ and has accidentally dropped from the text by homoioarcton (note that both the proposed וַיֹּאמֶר and וָיֵשׁ begin with vav, ו). The present translation assumes such a textual reconstruction; it is supported by the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

[10:15]  ²⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:19]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests summon to me.”

[10:19]  ³⁰ tn Heb “acted with deception [or, ‘trickery’].”

[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.”

[23:4]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “the priests of the second [rank],” that is, those ranked just beneath Hilkiah.

[23:4]  ⁵¹ tn Or “doorkeepers.”

[23:4]  ⁵² tn Heb “for.”

[23:4]  ⁵³ tn Heb “all the host of heaven” (also in v. 5).

[23:4]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:4]  ⁵⁵ tn Or “fields.” For a defense of the translation “terraces,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 285.

[23:4]  ⁵⁶ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[25:23]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “of the army.” The word “Judahite” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.