2 Kings 4:27

4:27 But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said, “Leave her alone, for she is very upset. ¹  The Lord has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn’t tell me about it.”

2 Kings 4:39

4:39 Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine. ²  He picked some of its fruit, ³  enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices ⁴  into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful. ⁵ 

2 Kings 5:15

5:15 He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman ⁶  came and stood before him. He said, “For sure ⁷  I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.”

2 Kings 8:5

8:5 While Gehazi ⁸  was telling the king how Elisha ⁹  had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. ¹⁰  Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”

2 Kings 13:21

13:21 One day some men ¹¹  were burying a man when they spotted ¹²  a raiding party. So they threw the dead man ¹³  into Elisha’s tomb. When the body ¹⁴  touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man ¹⁵  came to life and stood on his feet.

2 Kings 14:9

14:9 King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal ¹⁶  of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn. ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 25:1

25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside ¹⁸  it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. ¹⁹ 

2 Kings 25:25

25:25 But in the seventh month ²⁰  Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, ²¹  came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, ²²  as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.

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¹ tn Heb “her soul [i.e., ‘disposition’] is bitter.”

² tn Heb “a vine of the field.”

³ tn Heb “[some] of the gourds of the field.”

⁴ tn Heb “he came and cut [them up].”

⁵ tc The Hebrew text reads, “for they did not know” (יָדָעוּ, yada’u) but some emend the final shureq (וּ, indicating a third plural subject) to holem vav (וֹ, a third masculine singular pronominal suffix on a third singular verb) and read “for he did not know it.” Perhaps it is best to omit the final vav as dittographic (note the vav at the beginning of the next verb form) and read simply, “for he did not know.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.

⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “look.”

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

⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and look, the woman whose son he had brought back to life was crying out to the king for her house and her field.”

sn The legal background of the situation is uncertain. For a discussion of possibilities, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 87-88.

¹¹ tn Heb “and it so happened [that] they.”

¹² tn Heb “and look, they saw.”

¹³ tn Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴ tn Heb “the man.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the dead man) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Otherwise the reader might think it was Elisha rather than the unnamed dead man who came back to life.

¹⁶ tn Heb “the animal of the field.”

¹⁷ sn Judah is the thorn in the allegory. Amaziah’s success has deceived him into thinking he is on the same level as the major powers in the area (symbolized by the cedar). In reality he is not capable of withstanding an attack by a real military power such as Israel (symbolized by the wild animal).

¹⁸ tn Or “against.”

¹⁹ sn This would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

²⁰ sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; Jer 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; Jer 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (Jer 40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (Jer 52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).

²¹ tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”

²² tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”