2 Kings 1:14

1:14 Indeed, ¹  fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. ²  So now, please have respect for my life.”

2 Kings 3:12

3:12 Jehoshaphat said, “The Lord speaks through him.” ³  So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to visit him.

2 Kings 3:20

3:20 Sure enough, the next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water came flowing down from Edom and filled the land. ⁴ 

2 Kings 3:23-24

3:23 The Moabites ⁵  said, “It’s blood! The kings are totally destroyed! ⁶  They have struck one another down! Now, Moab, seize the plunder!” 3:24 When they approached the Israelite camp, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who then ran from them. The Israelites ⁷  thoroughly defeated ⁸  Moab.

2 Kings 4:21

4:21 She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s ⁹  bed. She shut the door behind her and left.

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?” ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 9:16

9:16 Jehu drove his chariot ¹¹  to Jezreel, for Joram was recuperating ¹²  there. (Now King Ahaziah of Judah had come down to visit ¹³  Joram.)

2 Kings 9:32

9:32 He looked up at the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three ¹⁴  eunuchs looked down at him.

2 Kings 17:37

17:37 You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods.

2 Kings 21:21

21:21 He followed in the footsteps of his father ¹⁵  and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols ¹⁶  which his father had worshiped. ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 23:7

23:7 He tore down the quarters ¹⁸  of the male cultic prostitutes in the Lord’s temple, where women were weaving shrines ¹⁹  for Asherah.

2 Kings 25:9

25:9 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house. ²⁰ 

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¹ tn Heb “look.”

² tn Heb “their fifty.”

³ tn Heb “the word of the Lord is with him.”

⁴ tn Heb “and in the morning, when the offering is offered up, look, water was coming from the way of Edom, and the land was filled with water.”

⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Moabites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn The translation assumes the verb is חָרַב (kharav, “to be desolate”). The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb form for emphasis. (For another example of the Hophal infinitive with a Niphal finite verb, see Lev 19:20. Cf. also IBHS 582 §35.2.1c.) Some prefer to derive the verb from a proposed homonym meaning “at HALOT 349 s.v. II חרב and BDB 352 s.v. חָרְבָה).

⁷ tn Heb “they.”

⁸ tc The consonantal text (Kethib) suggests, “and they went, striking down,” but the marginal reading (Qere) is “they struck down, striking down.” For a discussion of the textual problem, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 46.

⁹ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “Is there peace?”

¹¹ tn Heb “rode [or, ‘mounted’] and went.”

¹² tn Heb “lying down.”

¹³ tn Heb “to see.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “two, three.” The narrator may be intentionally vague or uncertain here, or the two numbers may represent alternate traditions.

¹⁵ tn Heb “walked in all the way which his father walked.”

¹⁶ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

¹⁷ tn Heb “and he served the disgusting idols which his father served and he bowed down to them.”

¹⁸ tn Or “cubicles.” Heb “houses.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “houses.” Perhaps tent-shrines made from cloth are in view (see BDB 109 s.v. בַּיִת). M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 286) understand this as referring to clothes made for images of the goddess.

²⁰ tn Heb “and every large house he burned down with fire.”