2 Kings 2:9

2:9 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “What can I do for you, 1  before I am taken away from you?” Elisha answered, “May I receive a double portion of the prophetic spirit that energizes you.” 2 

2 Kings 2:14

2:14 He took the cloak that had fallen off Elijah, 3  hit the water with it, and said, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” When he hit the water, it divided and Elisha crossed over.

2 Kings 3:14

3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all 4  lives (whom I serve), 5  if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah, 6  I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you. 7 

2 Kings 4:35

4:35 Elisha 8  went back and walked around in the house. 9  Then he got up on the bed again 10  and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

2 Kings 4:43

4:43 But his attendant said, “How can I feed a hundred men with this?” 11  He replied, “Set it before the people so they may eat, for this is what the Lord says, ‘They will eat and have some left over.’” 12 

2 Kings 5:11

5:11 Naaman went away angry. He said, “Look, I thought for sure he would come out, stand there, invoke the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the area, and cure the skin disease.

2 Kings 6:28-29

6:28 Then the king asked her, “What’s your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’ 6:29 So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, ‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”

2 Kings 8:15

8:15 The next day Hazael 13  took a piece of cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over Ben Hadad’s 14  face until he died. Then Hazael replaced him as king.

2 Kings 8:21

8:21 Joram 15  crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers. 16  The Israelite army retreated to their homeland. 17 

2 Kings 9:33

9:33 He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down, and when she hit the ground, 18  her blood splattered against the wall and the horses, and Jehu drove his chariot over her. 19 

2 Kings 10:30

10:30 The Lord said to Jehu, “You have done well. You have accomplished my will and carried out my wishes with regard to Ahab’s dynasty. Therefore four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” 20 

2 Kings 12:11

12:11 They would then hand over 21  the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen 22  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,

2 Kings 13:1

Jehoahaz’s Reign over Israel

13:1 In the twenty-third year of the reign of Judah’s King Joash son of Ahaziah, Jehu’s son Jehoahaz became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria 23  for seventeen years.

2 Kings 13:17

13:17 Elisha 24  said, “Open the east window,” and he did so. 25  Elisha said, “Shoot!” and

he did so. 26  Elisha 27  said, “This arrow symbolizes the victory the Lord will give you over Syria. 28  You will annihilate Syria in Aphek!” 29 

2 Kings 14:10

14:10 You thoroughly defeated Edom 30  and it has gone to your head! 31  Gloat over your success, 32  but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” 33 

2 Kings 14:23

Jeroboam II’s Reign over Israel

14:23 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Judah’s King Amaziah, son of Joash, Jeroboam son of Joash became king over Israel. He reigned for forty-one years in Samaria. 34 

2 Kings 14:28

14:28 The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including all his accomplishments, his military success in restoring Israelite control over Damascus and Hamath, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 35 

2 Kings 15:29

15:29 During Pekah’s reign over Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, 36  Gilead, and Galilee, including all the territory of Naphtali. He deported the people 37  to Assyria.

2 Kings 18:10

18:10 After three years he captured it (in the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign); in the ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign over Israel Samaria was captured.

2 Kings 18:30

18:30 Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord when he says, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”

2 Kings 19:10

19:10 “Tell King Hezekiah of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust mislead you when he says, “Jerusalem will not be handed over 38  to the king of Assyria.”

2 Kings 19:15

19:15 Hezekiah prayed before the Lord: “Lord God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubs! 39  You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky 40  and the earth.

2 Kings 22:9

22:9 Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, 41  “Your servants melted down the silver in the temple 42  and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple.”

1 tn Heb “Ask! What can I do for you….?”

2 tn Heb “May a double portion of your spirit come to me.”

3 tn Heb “Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him.” The wording is changed slightly in the translation for the sake of variety of expression (see v. 13).

4 tn Traditionally “the Lord of hosts.”

5 tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

6 tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”

7 tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”

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

9 tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”

10 tn Heb “and he went up.”

11 tn Heb “How can I set this before a hundred men?”

12 tn The verb forms are infinitives absolute (Heb “eating and leaving over”) and have to be translated in light of the context.

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

14 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

15 sn Joram is a short form of the name Jehoram.

16 tn Heb “and he arose at night and defeated Edom, who had surrounded him, and the chariot officers.” The Hebrew text as it stands gives the impression that Joram was surrounded and launched a victorious night counterattack. It would then be quite natural to understand the last statement in the verse to refer to an Edomite retreat. Yet v. 22 goes on to state that the Edomite revolt was successful. Therefore, if the MT is retained, it may be better to understand the final statement in v. 21 as a reference to an Israelite retreat (made in spite of the success described in the preceding sentence). The translation above assumes an emendation of the Hebrew text. Adding a third masculine singular pronominal suffix to the accusative sign before Edom (reading אֶתוֹ [’eto], “him,” instead of just אֶת [’et]) and taking Edom as the subject of verbs allows one to translate the verse in a way that is more consistent with the context, which depicts an Israelite defeat, not victory. There is, however, no evidence for this emendation.

17 tn Heb “and the people fled to their tents.”

18 tn The words “when she hit the ground” are added for stylistic reasons.

19 tn Heb “and he trampled her.”

20 tn Heb “Because you have done well by doing what is proper in my eyes – according to all which was in my heart you have done to the house of Ahab – sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.” In the Hebrew text the Lord’s statement is one long sentence (with a parenthesis). The translation above divides it into shorter sentences for stylistic reasons.

sn Jehu ruled over Israel from approximately 841-814 b.c. Four of his descendants (Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Jeroboam II, and Zechariah) ruled from approximately 814-753 b.c. The dynasty came to an end when Shallum assassinated Zechariah in 753 b.c. See 2 Kgs 15:8-12.

21 tn Heb “would give.”

22 tn Heb “doers of the work.”

23 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

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

25 tn Heb “He opened [it].”

26 tn Heb “and he shot.”

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

28 tn Heb “The arrow of victory of the Lord and the arrow of victory over Syria.”

29 tn Heb “you will strike down Syria in Aphek until destruction.”

30 tn Or “you have indeed defeated Edom.”

31 tn Heb “and your heart has lifted you up.”

32 tn Heb “be glorified.”

33 tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”

34 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

35 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?” The phrase “to Judah” is probably not original; it may be a scribal addition by a Judahite scribe who was trying to link Jeroboam’s conquests with the earlier achievements of David and Solomon, who ruled in Judah. The Syriac Peshitta has simply “to Israel.” M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 162) offer this proposal, but acknowledge that it is “highly speculative.”

36 map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.

37 tn Heb “them.”

38 tn Heb “will not be given.”

39 sn This refers to the cherub images that were above the ark of the covenant.

40 tn Or “the heavens.”

41 tn Heb “returned the king a word and said.”

42 tn Heb “that was found in the house.”