2 Kings 2:1
Elijah Makes a Swift Departure
2:1 Just before 1 the Lord took Elijah up to heaven in a windstorm, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.
2 Kings 4:44
4:44 So he set it before them; they ate and had some left over, just as the Lord predicted. 2
2 Kings 6:27
6:27 He replied, “No, let the Lord help you. How can I help you? The threshing floor and winepress are empty.” 3
2 Kings 10:32
10:32 In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel’s territory. 4 Hazael attacked their eastern border. 5
2 Kings 11:13
11:13 When Athaliah heard the royal guard 6 shout, she joined the crowd 7 at the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 12:14
12:14 It was handed over 8 to the foremen who used it to repair the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 14:3
14:3 He did what the Lord approved, 9 but not like David his father. He followed the example of his father Joash. 10
2 Kings 14:26
14:26 The Lord saw Israel’s intense suffering; 11 everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer. 12
2 Kings 15:37
15:37 In those days the Lord prompted King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah to attack Judah. 13
2 Kings 17:18-19
17:18 So the Lord was furious 14 with Israel and rejected them; 15 only the tribe of Judah was left.
17:19 Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the Lord their God; they followed Israel’s example. 16
2 Kings 17:39
17:39 Instead you must worship the Lord your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.”
2 Kings 18:15
18:15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver in 17 the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
2 Kings 19:1
19:1 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 19:33
19:33 He will go back the way he came.
He will not enter this city,” says the Lord.
2 Kings 21:5
21:5 In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.
2 Kings 24:3-4
24:3 Just as the Lord had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins which Manasseh had committed. 18
24:4 Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the Lord was unwilling to forgive them. 19
1 tn Or “when.”
2 tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord.”
3 tn Heb “From where can I help you, from the threshing floor or the winepress?” The rhetorical question expresses the king’s frustration. He has no grain or wine to give to the masses.
4 tn Heb “began to cut off Israel.”
5 tn Heb “Hazael struck them down in all the territory of Israel, from the Jordan on the east.” In the Hebrew text the phrase “from the Jordan on the east” begins v. 33.
6 tc The MT reads, “and Athaliah heard the sound of the runners, the people.” The term הָעָם (ha’am), “the people,” is probably a scribal addition anticipating the reference to the people later in the verse and in v. 14.
7 tn Heb “she came to the people.”
8 tn Heb “was given.”
9 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”
10 tn Heb “according to all which Joash his father had done, he did.”
11 tc Heb “for the Lord saw the very bitter affliction of Israel.” This translation assumes an emendation of מֹרֶה (moreh), which is meaningless here, to ַהמַּר (hammar), the adjective “bitter” functioning attributively with the article prefixed. This emendation is supported by the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate. Another option would be מַר הוּא (mar hu’), “it was bitter.”
12 tn Heb “[there was] none but the restrained, and [there was] none but the abandoned, and there was no deliverer for Israel.” On the meaning of the terms עָצוּר (’atsur) and עָזוּב (’azur), see the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.
13 tn Heb “the Lord began to send against Judah Rezin…and Pekahiah….”
14 tn Heb “very angry.”
15 tn Heb “turned them away from his face.”
16 tn Heb “they walked in the practices of Israel which they did.”
17 tn Heb “that was found.”
18 tn Heb “Certainly according to the word of the Lord this happened against Judah, to remove [them] from his face because of the sins of Manasseh according to all which he did.”
19 tn Heb “and also the blood of the innocent which he shed, and he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.”