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 6:25

6:25 Samaria’s food supply ran out. ³  They laid siege to it so long that ⁴  a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver ⁵  and a quarter of a kab ⁶  of dove’s droppings ⁷  for five shekels of silver. ⁸ 

2 Kings 9:22

9:22 When Jehoram saw Jehu, he asked, “Is everything all right, Jehu?” He replied, “How can everything be all right as long as your mother Jezebel promotes idolatry and pagan practices?” ⁹ 

2 Kings 18:12

18:12 This happened because they did not obey ¹⁰  the Lord their God and broke his agreement with them. ¹¹  They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded. ¹² 

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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 The phrase has been replaced by the relative pronoun “he” in the translation for stylistic reasons.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 “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”

⁴ tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”

⁵ tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

⁶ sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately one quart.

⁷ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) reads, “dove dung” (חֲרֵייוֹנִים, khareyonim), while the marginal reading (Qere) has “discharge” (דִּבְיוֹנִים, divyonim). Based on evidence from Akkadian, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 79) suggest that “dove’s dung” was a popular name for the inedible husks of seeds.

⁸ tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

⁹ tn Heb “How [can there be] peace as long as the adulterous acts of Jezebel your mother and her many acts of sorcery [continue]?” In this instance “adulterous acts” is employed metaphorically for idolatry. As elsewhere in the OT, worshiping other gods is viewed as spiritual adultery and unfaithfulness to the one true God. The phrase “many acts of sorcery” could be taken literally, for Jezebel undoubtedly utilized pagan divination practices, but the phrase may be metaphorical, pointing to her devotion to pagan customs in general.

¹⁰ tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”

¹¹ tn Heb “his covenant.”

¹² tn Heb “all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded, and they did not listen and they did not act.”