2 Kings 8:5

8:5 While Gehazi ¹  was telling the king how Elisha ²  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. ³  Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”

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. ⁴  If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” ⁵  So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents ⁶  of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 23:8

23:8 He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined ⁷  the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba. ⁸  He tore down the high place of the goat idols ⁹  situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate.

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ¹⁰  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ¹¹  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ¹²  and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law ¹³  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 25:19

25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five ¹⁴  of the king’s advisers ¹⁵  who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens ¹⁶  for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

[8:5]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ³ 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.”

[18:14]  ⁴ tn Or “I have done wrong.”

[18:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

[18:14]  ⁶ 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.

[23:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “defiled; desecrated,” that is, “made ritually unclean and unusable.”

[23:8]  ⁸ sn These towns marked Judah’s northern and southern borders, respectively, at the time of Josiah.

[23:8]  ⁹ tc The Hebrew text reads “the high places of the gates,” which is problematic in that the rest of the verse speaks of a specific gate. The translation assumes an emendation to בָּמוֹת הַשְּׁעָרִים (bamot hashÿ’arim), “the high place of the goats” (that is, goat idols). Worship of such images is referred to in Lev 17:7 and 2 Chr 11:15. For a discussion of the textual issue, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 286-87.

[23:24]  ¹⁰ tn Here בִּעֵר (bi’er) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.

[23:24]  ¹¹ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ¹² sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ¹³ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”

[25:19]  ¹³ tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”

[25:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”

[25:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the people of the land.”