2 Kings 2:12

2:12 While Elisha was watching, he was crying out, “My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!” 1  Then he could no longer see him. He grabbed his clothes and tore them in two.

2 Kings 4:8

Elisha Gives Life to a Boy

4:8 One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent 2  woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. 3  So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal. 4 

2 Kings 4:31

4:31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha 5  he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

2 Kings 6:30

6:30 When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes. 6 

2 Kings 8:18

8:18 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. 7  He did evil in the sight of 8  the Lord.

2 Kings 9:5

9:5 When he arrived, the officers of the army were sitting there. 9  So he said, “I have a message for you, O officer.” 10  Jehu asked, “For which one of us?” 11  He replied, “For you, O officer.”

2 Kings 13:2

13:2 He did evil in the sight of 12  the Lord. He continued in 13  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins. 14 

2 Kings 13:11

13:11 He did evil in the sight of 15  the Lord. He did not repudiate 16  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins. 17 

2 Kings 14:2

14:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. 18  His mother 19  was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 15:2

15:2 He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. 20  His mother’s name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 16:2

16:2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. 21  He did not do what pleased the Lord his God, in contrast to his ancestor David. 22 

2 Kings 18:2

18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. 23  His mother 24  was Abi, 25  the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Kings 23:6

23:6 He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. 26  He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard. 27 

2 Kings 24:2

24:2 The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets. 28 

1 sn Elisha may be referring to the fiery chariot(s) and horses as the Lord’s spiritual army that fights on behalf of Israel (see 2 Kgs 6:15-17; 7:6). However, the juxtaposition with “my father” (clearly a reference to Elijah as Elisha’s mentor), and the parallel in 2 Kgs 13:14 (where the king addresses Elisha with these words), suggest that Elisha is referring to Elijah. In this case Elijah is viewed as a one man army, as it were. When the Lord spoke through him, his prophetic word was as powerful as an army of chariots and horses. See M. A. Beek, “The Meaning of the Expression ‘The Chariots and Horsemen of Israel’ (II Kings ii 12),” The Witness of Tradition (OTS 17), 1-10.

2 tn Heb “great,” perhaps “wealthy.”

3 tn Or “she urged him to eat some food.”

4 tn Or “he would turn aside there to eat some food.”

5 tn Heb “to meet him.”

6 tn Heb “the people saw, and look, [there was] sackcloth against his skin underneath.”

7 tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”

8 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

9 tn Heb “and he arrived and look, the officers of the army were sitting.”

10 tn Heb “[there is] a word for me to you, O officer.”

11 tn Heb “To whom from all of us?”

12 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

13 tn Heb “walked after.”

14 tn Heb “he did not turn aside from it.”

15 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

16 tn Heb “turn away from all.”

17 tn Heb “in it he walked.”

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19 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

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22 tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord his God, like David his father.”

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24 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

25 tn The parallel passage in 2 Chr 29:1 has “Abijah.”

26 tn Heb “and he burned it in the Kidron Valley.”

27 tc Heb “on the grave of the sons of the people.” Some Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses read the plural “graves.”

tn The phrase “sons of the people” refers here to the common people (see BDB 766 s.v. עַם), as opposed to the upper classes who would have private tombs.

28 tn Heb “he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by the hand of his servants the prophets.”