2 Kings 1:8

1:8 They replied,¹ “He was a hairy man² and had a leather belt³ tied around his waist.” The king⁴ said, “He is Elijah the Tishbite.”

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 3:21

3:21 Now all Moab had heard that the kings were attacking,⁵ so everyone old enough to fight was mustered and placed at the border.⁶

2 Kings 4:17

4:17 The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

2 Kings 6:10

6:10 So the king of Israel sent a message to the place the prophet had pointed out, warning it⁷ to be on its guard. This happened on several occasions.⁸

2 Kings 8:19

8:19 But the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah. He preserved Judah for the sake of⁹ his servant David to whom he had promised a perpetual dynasty.¹⁰

2 Kings 9:16

9:16 Jehu drove his chariot¹¹ to Jezreel, for Joram was recuperating¹² there. (Now King Ahaziah of Judah had come down to visit¹³ Joram.)

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,¹⁴ just as the Lord had announced to Elijah.¹⁵

2 Kings 10:29

A Summary of Jehu’s Reign

10:29 However, Jehu did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam son of Nebat had encouraged Israel to commit; the golden calves remained in Bethel¹⁶ and Dan.¹⁷

2 Kings 12:6

12:6 By the twenty-third year of King Jehoash’s reign the priests had still not repaired the damage to the temple.

2 Kings 14:27

14:27 The Lord had not decreed that he would blot out Israel’s memory¹⁸ from under heaven,¹⁹ so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.

2 Kings 16:18

16:18 He also removed the Sabbath awning²⁰ that had been built²¹ in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway, on account of the king of Assyria.²²

2 Kings 17:8

17:8 they observed the practices²³ of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel.²⁴

2 Kings 17:11

17:11 They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry.²⁵

2 Kings 17:14

17:14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors,²⁶ who had not trusted the Lord their God.

2 Kings 17:20

17:20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated²⁷ them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.

2 Kings 17:28

17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel.²⁸ He taught them how to worship²⁹ the Lord.

2 Kings 17:33

17:33 They were worshiping³⁰ the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.

2 Kings 18:6

18:6 He was loyal to³¹ the Lord and did not abandon him.³² He obeyed the commandments which the Lord had given to³³ Moses.

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.³⁴

2 Kings 20:12

Messengers from Babylon Visit Hezekiah

20:12 At that time Merodach-Baladan³⁵ son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah was ill.

2 Kings 21:9

21:9 But they did not obey,³⁶ and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.

2 Kings 21:21

21:21 He followed in the footsteps of his father³⁷ and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols³⁸ which his father had worshiped.³⁹

2 Kings 21:24

21:24 The people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they⁴⁰ made his son Josiah king in his place.

2 Kings 23:26

23:26 Yet the Lord’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.⁴¹

2 Kings 25:3

25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month⁴² the famine in the city was so severe the residents⁴³ had no food.

¹tn Heb “said to him.”

²tn Heb “an owner of hair.” This idiomatic expression indicates that Elijah was very hairy. For other examples where the idiom “owner of” is used to describe a characteristic of someone, see HALOT 143 s.v. בַּעַל. For example, an “owner of dreams” is one who frequently has dreams (Gen 37:19) and an “owner of anger” is a hot-tempered individual (Prov 22:24).

³tn Heb “belt of skin” (i.e., one made from animal hide).

⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “had come up to fight them.”

⁶tn Heb “and they mustered all who tied on a belt and upwards, and they stood at the border.”

⁷tn The vav + perfect here indicates action contemporary with the preceding main verb (“sent”). See IBHS 533-34 §32.2.3e.

⁸tn Heb “and the king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God spoke to him, and he warned it and he guarded himself there, not once and not twice.”

⁹tn The Hebrew has only one sentence, “and the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah for the sake of.” The translation divides it for the sake of clarity.

¹⁰tn Heb “just as he had promised to give him and his sons a lamp all the days.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty; this is reflected in the translation.

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

¹²tn Heb “lying down.”

¹³tn Heb “to see.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and he struck down all the remaining ones to Ahab in Samaria until he destroyed him.”

¹⁵tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to Elijah.”

¹⁶map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

¹⁷tn Heb “Except the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat which he caused Israel to commit, Jehu did not turn aside from after them – the golden calves which [were in] Bethel and which [were] in Dan.”

¹⁸tn Heb “name.”

¹⁹tn The phrase “from under heaven” adds emphasis to the verb “blot out” and suggest total annihilation. For other examples of the verb מָחָה (makhah), “blot out,” combined with “from under heaven,” see Exod 17:14; Deut 9:14; 25:19; 29:20.

²⁰tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term מוּסַךְ (musakh; Qere) / מִיסַךְ (misakh; Kethib) is uncertain. For discussion see HALOT 557 s.v. מוּסַךְ and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189-90.

²¹tn Heb “that they built.”

²²sn It is doubtful that Tiglath-pileser ordered these architectural changes. Ahaz probably made these changes so he could send some of the items and materials to the Assyrian king as tribute. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 190, 193.

²³tn Heb “walked in the customs.”

²⁴tn Heb “and [the practices of] the kings of Israel which they did.”

²⁵tn Heb “and they did evil things, angering the Lord.”

²⁶tn Heb and they stiffened their neck like the neck of their fathers.”

²⁷tn Or “afflicted.”

²⁸map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

²⁹tn Heb “fear.”

³⁰tn Heb “fearing.”

³¹tn Heb “he hugged.”

³²tn Heb “and did not turn aside from after him.”

³³tn Heb “had commanded.”

³⁴tn 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.”

³⁵tc The MT has “Berodach-Baladan,” but several Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses agree with the parallel passage in Isa 39:1 and read “Merodach-Baladan.”

³⁶tn Heb “listen.”

³⁷tn Heb “walked in all the way which his father walked.”

³⁸sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

³⁹tn Heb “and he served the disgusting idols which his father served and he bowed down to them.”

⁴⁰tn Heb “the people of the land.” The pronoun “they” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid the repetition of the phrase “the people of the land” from the beginning of the verse.

⁴¹tn Heb “Yet the Lord did not turn away from the fury of his great anger, which raged against Judah, on account of all the infuriating things by which Manasseh had made him angry.”

⁴²tn The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.

sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

⁴³tn Heb “the people of the land.”