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 3:21

3:21 Now all Moab had heard that the kings were attacking, ³  so everyone old enough to fight was mustered and placed at the border. ⁴ 

2 Kings 3:23

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!”

2 Kings 4:26

4:26 Now, run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?’” She told Gehazi, ⁷  “Everything’s fine.”

2 Kings 6:8

Elisha Defeats an Army

6:8 Now the king of Syria was at war with Israel. He consulted his advisers, who said, “Invade ⁸  at such and such ⁹  a place.”

2 Kings 8:4

8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s ¹⁰  servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.”

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 11:20

11:20 All the people of the land celebrated, for the city had rest now that they had killed Athaliah with the sword in the royal palace.

2 Kings 18:23

18:23 Now make a deal ¹⁴  with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.

2 Kings 19:19

19:19 Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, Lord, are the only God.”

2 Kings 25:22

Gedaliah Appointed Governor

25:22 Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over the people whom he allowed to remain in the land of Judah. ¹⁵ 

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¹ tn Heb “look.”

² tn Heb “their fifty.”

³ tn Heb “had come up to fight them.”

⁴ tn Heb “and they mustered all who tied on a belt and upwards, and they stood at the border.”

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 “she said.” The narrator streamlines the story at this point, omitting any reference to Gehazi running to meet her and asking her the questions.

⁸ tc The verb form used here is difficult to analyze. On the basis of the form נְחִתִּים (nÿkhitim) in v. 9 from the root נָחַת (nakhat), it is probably best to emend the verb to תִּנְחְתוּ (tinkhÿtu; a Qal imperfect form from the same root). The verb נָחַת in at least two other instances carries the nuance “go down, descend” in a military context. For a defense of this view, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 72.

⁹ sn The advisers would have mentioned a specific location, but the details are not significant to the narrator’s purpose, so he simply paraphrases here.

¹⁰ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

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

¹² tn Heb “lying down.”

¹³ tn Heb “to see.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “exchange pledges.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “And the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left, he appointed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.”