2 Kings 1:4
1:4 Therefore this is what the Lord says, “You will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die!”’” So Elijah went on his way.
2 Kings 2:7
2:7 The fifty members of the prophetic guild went and stood opposite them at a distance, while Elijah and Elisha 1 stood by the Jordan.
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 3:12
3:12 Jehoshaphat said, “The Lord speaks through him.” 2 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to visit him.
2 Kings 4:21
4:21 She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s 3 bed. She shut the door behind her and left.
2 Kings 5:2
5:2 Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman’s wife.
2 Kings 5:27
5:27 Therefore Naaman’s skin disease will afflict 4 you and your descendants forever!” When Gehazi 5 went out from his presence, his skin was as white as snow. 6
2 Kings 8:2-3
8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said. 7 She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
8:3 After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field. 8
2 Kings 8:14
8:14 He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad 9 asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?” Hazael 10 replied, “He told me you would surely recover.”
2 Kings 10:17
10:17 He went to Samaria and exterminated all the members of Ahab’s family who were still alive in Samaria, 11 just as the Lord had announced to Elijah. 12
2 Kings 15:14
15:14 Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to 13 Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh. 14 He killed him and took his place as king.
2 Kings 17:28
17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. 15 He taught them how to worship 16 the Lord.
2 Kings 19:8
19:8 When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning. 17
2 Kings 19:14
19:14 Hezekiah took the letter 18 from the messengers and read it. 19 Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.
1 tn Heb “the two of them.” The referents (Elijah and Elisha) have been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “the word of the Lord is with him.”
3 tn Heb “man of God’s.”
4 tn Heb “cling to.”
5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Traditionally, “he went from before him, leprous like snow.” But see the note at 5:1, as well as M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 66.
7 tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”
8 tn Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hazael) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 tn Heb “and he struck down all the remaining ones to Ahab in Samaria until he destroyed him.”
12 tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to Elijah.”
13 tn Heb “and came to.”
14 tn Heb “went up from Tirzah and arrived in Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria.”
15 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
16 tn Heb “fear.”
17 tn Heb “and the chief adviser returned and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.”
18 tc The MT has the plural, “letters,” but the final mem is probably dittographic (note the initial mem on the form that immediately follows). Some Greek and Aramaic witnesses have the singular.
19 tc The MT has the plural suffix, “them,” but this probably reflects a later harmonization to the preceding textual corruption (of “letter” to “letters”). The parallel passage in Isa 37:14 has the singular suffix.