2 Kings 6:5

6:5 As one of them was felling a log, the ax head ¹  dropped into the water. He shouted, “Oh no, ²  my master! It was borrowed!”

2 Kings 2:13

2:13 He picked up Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him, and went back and stood on the shore of the Jordan.

2 Kings 4:37

4:37 She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.

2 Kings 19:7

19:7 Look, I will take control of his mind; ³  he will receive ⁴  a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down ⁵  with a sword in his own land.”’”

2 Kings 25:11

25:11 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, deported the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. ⁶ 

2 Kings 5:21

5:21 So Gehazi ran after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from his chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right?” ⁷ 

2 Kings 6:6

6:6 The prophet ⁸  asked, “Where did it drop in?” When he showed him the spot, Elisha ⁹  cut off a branch, threw it in at that spot, and made the ax head float.

2 Kings 14:10

14:10 You thoroughly defeated Edom ¹⁰  and it has gone to your head! ¹¹  Gloat over your success, ¹²  but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” ¹³ 

2 Kings 1:2

1:2 Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria ¹⁴  and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders, ¹⁵  “Go, ask ¹⁶  Baal Zebub, ¹⁷  the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.”

2 Kings 2:14

2:14 He took the cloak that had fallen off Elijah, ¹⁸  hit the water with it, and said, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” When he hit the water, it divided and Elisha crossed over.

2 Kings 3:19

3:19 You will defeat every fortified city and every important ¹⁹  city. You must chop down ²⁰  every productive ²¹  tree, stop up all the springs, and cover all the cultivated land with stones.” ²² 

2 Kings 3:25

3:25 They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. ²³  They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree.

Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, ²⁴  but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

2 Kings 7:4

7:4 If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, ²⁵  and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect ²⁶  to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, ²⁷  we’ll live; if they kill us – well, we were going to die anyway.” ²⁸ 

2 Kings 10:10

10:10 Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the Lord announced against Ahab’s dynasty has failed to materialize. The Lord had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.” ²⁹ 

[6:5]  ¹ tn Heb “iron.”

[6:5]  ² tn Or “ah.”

[19:7]  ³ tn Heb “I will put in him a spirit.” The precise sense of רוּחַ (ruakh), “spirit,” is uncertain in this context. It may refer to a spiritual being who will take control of his mind (see 1 Kgs 22:19), or it could refer to a disposition of concern and fear. In either case the Lord’s sovereignty over the king is apparent.

[19:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “hear.”

[19:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “cause him to fall,” that is, “kill him.”

[25:11]  ⁵ tc The MT has “the multitude.” But הֶהָמוֹן (hehamon) should probably be emended to הֶאָמוֹן (he’amon).

[5:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “Is there peace?”

[6:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “man of God” (also in v. 9).

[6:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:10]  ¹¹ tn Or “you have indeed defeated Edom.”

[14:10]  ¹² tn Heb “and your heart has lifted you up.”

[14:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “be glorified.”

[14:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”

[1:2]  ¹³ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[1:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he sent messengers and said to them.”

[1:2]  ¹⁵ tn That is, “seek an oracle from.”

[1:2]  ¹⁶ sn Apparently Baal Zebub refers to a local manifestation of the god Baal at the Philistine city of Ekron. The name appears to mean “Lord of the Flies,” but it may be a deliberate scribal corruption of Baal Zebul, “Baal, the Prince,” a title known from the Ugaritic texts. For further discussion and bibliography, see HALOT 261 s.v. זְבוּב בַּעַל and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 25.

[2:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him.” The wording is changed slightly in the translation for the sake of variety of expression (see v. 13).

[3:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “choice” or “select.”

[3:19]  ¹⁸ tn Elisha places the object first and uses an imperfect verb form. The stylistic shift may signal that he is now instructing them what to do, rather than merely predicting what would happen.

[3:19]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “good.”

[3:19]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and ruin every good portion with stones.”

[3:25]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and [on] every good portion they were throwing each man his stone and they filled it.” The vav + perfect (“and they filled”) here indicates customary action contemporary with the situation described in the preceding main clause (where a customary imperfect is used, “they were throwing”). See the note at 3:4.

[3:25]  ²⁰ tn Heb “until he had allowed its stones to remain in Kir Hareseth.”

[7:4]  ²¹ tn Heb “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city and we will die there.”

[7:4]  ²² tn Heb “fall.”

[7:4]  ²³ tn Heb “keep us alive.”

[7:4]  ²⁴ tn Heb “we will die.” The paraphrastic translation attempts to bring out the logical force of their reasoning.

[10:10]  ²³ tn Heb “Know then that there has not fallen from the word of the Lord to the ground that which the Lord spoke against the house of Ahab. The Lord has done that which he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah.”