2 Kings 4:25

4:25 So she went to visit ¹  the prophet at Mount Carmel. When he ²  saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, it’s the Shunammite woman.

2 Kings 16:10

16:10 When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there. ³  King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design. ⁴ 

2 Kings 17:23-24

17:23 Finally ⁵  the Lord rejected Israel ⁶  just as he had warned he would do ⁷  through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

The King of Assyria Populates Israel with Foreigners

17:24 The king of Assyria brought foreigners ⁸  from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria ⁹  in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

2 Kings 17:29

17:29 But each of these nations made ¹⁰  its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria ¹¹  had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

2 Kings 22:16

22:16 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which the king of Judah has read. ¹² 

2 Kings 23:17

23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet ¹³  who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

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¹ tn Heb “went and came.”

² tn Heb “the man of God.” The phrase has been replaced by the relative pronoun “he” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³ tn Heb “in Damascus.”

⁴ tn Heb “the likeness of the altar and its pattern for all its work.”

⁵ tn Heb “until.”

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”

⁷ tn Heb “just as he said.”

⁸ tn The object is supplied in the translation.

⁹ sn In vv. 24-29 Samaria stands for the entire northern kingdom of Israel.

¹⁰ sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.

¹¹ tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.

¹² tn Heb “all the words of the scroll which the king of Judah has read.”

¹³ tn Heb “man of God.”