2 Kings 2:24

2:24 When he turned around and saw them, he called God’s judgment down on them.¹ Two female bears came out of the woods and ripped forty-two of the boys to pieces.

2 Kings 5:23

5:23 Naaman said, “Please accept two talents of silver.² He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi.³

2 Kings 6:19

6:19 Then Elisha said to them, “This is not the right road or city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you’re looking for.” He led them to Samaria.⁴

2 Kings 6:23

6:23 So he threw a big banquet⁵ for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back⁶ to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.

2 Kings 9:13

9:13 Each of them quickly took off his cloak and they spread them out at Jehu’s⁷ feet on the steps.⁸ The trumpet was blown⁹ and they shouted, “Jehu is¹⁰ king!”

2 Kings 10:7

10:7 When they received the letter, they seized the king’s sons and executed all seventy of them.¹¹ They put their heads in baskets and sent them to him in Jezreel.

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 of¹² Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped¹³ other gods;

2 Kings 21:8

21:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors,¹⁴ provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law my servant Moses ordered them to obey.”

2 Kings 23:19

23:19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord.¹⁵ He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel.¹⁶

¹tn Heb “he cursed them in the name of the Lord.” A curse was a formal appeal to a higher authority (here the Lord) to vindicate one’s cause through judgment. As in chapter one, this account makes it clear that disrespect for the Lord’s designated spokesmen can be deadly, for it is ultimately rejection of the Lord’s authority.

²tn Heb “Be resolved and accept two talents.”

³tn Heb “before him.”

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⁵tn Or “held a great feast.”

⁶tn Heb “they went back.”

⁷tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸tn Heb “and they hurried and took, each one his garment, and they placed [them] beneath him on the bone [?] of the steps.” The precise nuance of גֶרֶם (gerem), “bone,” is unclear. Some suggest the nuance “bare” here; it may be a technical architectural term in this context.

⁹tn Heb “they blew the trumpet.” This has been translated as a passive to avoid the implication that the same ones who shouted had all blown trumpets.

¹⁰tn Or “has become.”

¹¹tn Heb “and when the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered seventy men.”

¹²tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹³tn Heb “feared.”

¹⁴tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I gave to their fathers.”

¹⁵tc Heb “which the kings of Israel had made, angering.” The object has been accidentally omitted in the MT. It appears in the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate versions.

¹⁶tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”

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