2 Kings 3:14

3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all ¹  lives (whom I serve), ²  if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah, ³  I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you. 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 5:8

5:8 When Elisha the prophet ⁶  heard that the king had torn his clothes, he sent this message to the king, “Why did you tear your clothes? Send him ⁷  to me so he may know there is a prophet in Israel.”

2 Kings 5:20

5:20 Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought, ⁸  “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. ⁹  As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.”

2 Kings 6:6

6:6 The prophet ¹⁰  asked, “Where did it drop in?” When he showed him the spot, Elisha ¹¹  cut off a branch, threw it in at that spot, and made the ax head float.

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. ¹²  He did evil in the sight of ¹³  the Lord.

2 Kings 8:27

8:27 He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty and did evil in the sight of ¹⁴  the Lord, like Ahab’s dynasty, for he was related to Ahab’s family. ¹⁵ 

2 Kings 13:6

13:6 But they did not repudiate ¹⁶  the sinful ways of the family ¹⁷  of Jeroboam, who encouraged Israel to sin; they continued in those sins. ¹⁸  There was even an Asherah pole ¹⁹  standing in Samaria.

2 Kings 16:2

16:2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ²⁰  He did not do what pleased the Lord his God, in contrast to his ancestor David. ²¹ 

2 Kings 17:29

17:29 But each of these nations made ²²  its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria ²³  had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

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 21:13

21:13 I will destroy Jerusalem the same way I did Samaria ²⁴  and the dynasty of Ahab. ²⁵  I will wipe Jerusalem clean, just as one wipes a plate on both sides. ²⁶ 

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. ²⁷  He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. ²⁸ 

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.

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¹ tn Traditionally “the Lord of hosts.”

² tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

³ tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”

⁴ tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”

⁵ tn Heb “to meet him.”

⁶ tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 15, 20).

⁷ tn Heb “Let him come.”

⁸ tn Heb “said” (i.e., to himself).

⁹ tn Heb “Look, my master spared this Syrian Naaman by not taking from his hand what he brought.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “man of God” (also in v. 9).

¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² 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.”

¹³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and he walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of the Lord like the house of Ahab, for he was a relative by marriage of the house of Ahab.” For this use of חֲתַן (khatan), normally “son-in-law,” see HALOT 365 s.v. חָתָן. Ahab was Ahaziah’s grandfather on his mother’s side.

¹⁶ tn Heb “they did not turn away from.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “house.”

¹⁸ tc Heb “in it he walked.” The singular verb (הָלַךְ, halakh) is probably due to an error of haplography and should be emended to the plural (הָלְכּוּ, halÿku). Note that a vav immediately follows (on the form וְגַם, vÿgam).

¹⁹ tn Or “an image of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “the Asherah”; NCV “the Asherah idol.”

sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).

²⁰ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

²¹ tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord his God, like David his father.”

²² sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.

²³ tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.

²⁴ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

²⁵ tn Heb “I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab.” The measuring line and plumb line are normally used in building a structure, not tearing it down. But here they are used ironically as metaphors of judgment, emphasizing that he will give careful attention to the task of judgment.

²⁶ tn Heb “just as one wipes a plate, wiping and turning [it] on its face.” The word picture emphasizes how thoroughly the Lord will judge the city.

²⁷ tc 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.

²⁸ tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”

map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.