2 Kings 7:3

7:3 Now four men with a skin disease ¹  were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, “Why are we just sitting here waiting to die? ² 

2 Kings 2:16

2:16 They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord ³  may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha ⁴  replied, “Don’t send them out.”

2 Kings 25:25

25:25 But in the seventh month ⁵  Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, ⁶  came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, ⁷  as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.

2 Kings 25:19

25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five ⁸  of the king’s advisers ⁹  who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens ¹⁰  for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

[7:3]  ¹ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 5:1.

[7:3]  ² tn Heb “until we die.”

[2:16]  ³ tn Or “the spirit of the Lord.”

[2:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:25]  ⁵ sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; Jer 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; Jer 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (Jer 40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (Jer 52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).

[25:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”

[25:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”

[25:19]  ⁷ tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”

[25:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”

[25:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “the people of the land.”