2 Kings 2:19

Elisha Demonstrates His Authority

2:19 The men of the city said to Elisha, “Look, the city has a good location, as our¹ master can see. But the water is bad and the land doesn’t produce crops.”²

2 Kings 3:19

3:19 You will defeat every fortified city and every important³ city. You must chop down⁴ every productive⁵ tree, stop up all the springs, and cover all the cultivated land with stones.”⁶

2 Kings 4:38

Elisha Makes a Meal Edible

4:38 Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him⁷ and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire⁸ and boil some stew for the prophets.”⁹

2 Kings 6:23

6:23 So he threw a big banquet¹⁰ for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back¹¹ to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.

2 Kings 9:36-37

9:36 When they went back and told him, he said, “The Lord’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned,¹² ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh. 9:37 Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure on the surface of the ground in the plot of land at Jezreel. People will not be able to even recognize her.’”¹³

2 Kings 10:33

10:33 He conquered all the land of Gilead, including the territory of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh, extending all the way from the Aroer in the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan.¹⁴

2 Kings 17:7

A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History

17:7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of¹⁵ Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped¹⁶ other gods;

2 Kings 17:23

17:23 Finally¹⁷ the Lord rejected Israel¹⁸ just as he had warned he would do¹⁹ through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

2 Kings 17:27

17:27 So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you²⁰ deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.”²¹

2 Kings 17:36

17:36 Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability;²² bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.

2 Kings 18:25

18:25 Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March²³ up against this land and destroy it.’”’”²⁴

2 Kings 19:37

19:37 One day,²⁵ as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch,²⁶ his sons²⁷ Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword.²⁸ They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

2 Kings 20:14

20:14 Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say? Where do they come from?” Hezekiah replied, “They come from the distant land of Babylon.”

2 Kings 21:8

21:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors,²⁹ provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law my servant Moses ordered them to obey.”

2 Kings 24:7

24:7 The king of Egypt did not march out from his land again, for the king of Babylon conquered all the territory that the king of Egypt had formerly controlled between the Brook of Egypt and the Euphrates River.

¹tn Heb “my.”

²tn Heb “miscarries” or “is barren.”

³tn Heb “choice” or “select.”

⁴tn Elisha places the object first and uses an imperfect verb form. The stylistic shift may signal that he is now instructing them what to do, rather than merely predicting what would happen.

⁵tn Heb “good.”

⁶tn Heb “and ruin every good portion with stones.”

⁷tn Heb “the sons of the prophets were sitting before him.”

⁸tn The words “the fire” are added for clarification.

⁹tn Heb “sons of the prophets.”

¹⁰tn Or “held a great feast.”

¹¹tn Heb “they went back.”

¹²tn Heb “It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, saying.”

¹³tn Heb “so that they will not say, ‘This is Jezebel.’”

¹⁴tn Heb “all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassehites, from Aroer which is near the Arnon Valley, and Gilead, and Bashan.”

¹⁵tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁶tn Heb “feared.”

¹⁷tn Heb “until.”

¹⁸tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”

¹⁹tn Heb “just as he said.”

²⁰tc The second plural subject may refer to the leaders of the Assyrian army. However, some prefer to read “whom I deported,” changing the verb to a first person singular form with a third masculine plural pronominal suffix. This reading has some support from Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic witnesses.

²¹tc Heb “and let them go and let them live there, and let him teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” The two plural verbs seem inconsistent with the preceding and following contexts, where only one priest is sent back to Samaria. The singular has the support of Greek, Syriac, and Latin witnesses.

²²tn Heb “and outstretched arm.”

²³tn Heb “Go.”

²⁴sn In v. 25 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 22. He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commissioned Assyria as his instrument of discipline and judgment.

²⁵sn The assassination probably took place in 681 b.c.

²⁶sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.

²⁷tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions. Cf. Isa 37:38.

²⁸sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.

²⁹tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I gave to their fathers.”