2 Kings 4:30-31

4:30 The mother of the child said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha ¹  got up and followed her back.

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 ²  he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

2 Kings 4:35

4:35 Elisha ³  went back and walked around in the house. ⁴  Then he got up on the bed again ⁵  and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

2 Kings 4:38

Elisha Makes a Meal Edible

4:38 Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him ⁶  and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire ⁷  and boil some stew for the prophets.” ⁸ 

2 Kings 6:23

6:23 So he threw a big banquet ⁹  for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back ¹⁰  to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.

2 Kings 7:15

7:15 So they tracked them ¹¹  as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. ¹²  The scouts ¹³  went back and told the king.

2 Kings 9:18

9:18 So the horseman ¹⁴  went to meet him and said, “This is what the king says, ‘Is everything all right?’” ¹⁵  Jehu replied, “None of your business! ¹⁶  Follow me.” The watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but hasn’t started back.”

2 Kings 9:36

9:36 When they went back and told him, he said, “The Lord’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, ¹⁷  ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.

2 Kings 13:25

13:25 Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash took back from ¹⁸  Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities.

2 Kings 14:14

14:14 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages. ¹⁹  Then he went back to Samaria. ²⁰ 

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2 Kings 16:11

16:11 Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. ²¹  Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus. ²² 

2 Kings 17:27

17:27 So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you ²³  deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” ²⁴ 

2 Kings 19:28

19:28 Because you rage against me,

and the uproar you create has reached my ears; ²⁵ 

I will put my hook in your nose, ²⁶ 

and my bridle between your lips,

and I will lead you back the way

you came.”

2 Kings 20:9

20:9 Isaiah replied, “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said. Do you want the shadow to move ahead ten steps or to go back ten steps?” ²⁷ 

2 Kings 22:20

22:20 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. ²⁸  You will not have to witness ²⁹  all the disaster I will bring on this place.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.

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¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity. The referent must be Elisha here, since the following verse makes it clear that Gehazi had gone on ahead of them.

² tn Heb “to meet him.”

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”

⁵ tn Heb “and he went up.”

⁶ tn Heb “the sons of the prophets were sitting before him.”

⁷ tn The words “the fire” are added for clarification.

⁸ tn Heb “sons of the prophets.”

⁹ tn Or “held a great feast.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “they went back.”

¹¹ tn Heb “went after.”

¹² tn Heb “and look, all the road was full of clothes and equipment that Syria had thrown away in their haste.”

¹³ tn Or “messengers.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “the rider of the horse.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “Is there peace?”

¹⁶ tn Heb “What concerning you and concerning peace?” That is, “What concern is that to you?”

¹⁷ tn Heb “It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, saying.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “from the hand of.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “the sons of the pledges.”

²⁰ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

²¹ tn Heb “according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus.”

²² tn Heb “so Uriah the priest did, until the arrival of King Ahaz from Damascus.”

²³ tc The second plural subject may refer to the leaders of the Assyrian army. However, some prefer to read “whom I deported,” changing the verb to a first person singular form with a third masculine plural pronominal suffix. This reading has some support from Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic witnesses.

²⁴ tc Heb “and let them go and let them live there, and let him teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” The two plural verbs seem inconsistent with the preceding and following contexts, where only one priest is sent back to Samaria. The singular has the support of Greek, Syriac, and Latin witnesses.

²⁵ tc Heb “and your complacency comes up into my ears.” The parallelism is improved if שַׁאֲנַנְךְ (sha’anankh), “your complacency,” is emended to שַׁאֲוַנְךְ (sha’avankh), “your uproar.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 237-38.

²⁶ sn The word picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.

²⁷ tn The Hebrew הָלַךְ (halakh, a perfect), “it has moved ahead,” should be emended to הֲיֵלֵךְ (hayelekh, an imperfect with interrogative he [ה] prefixed), “shall it move ahead.”

²⁸ tn Heb “Therefore, look, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”

²⁹ tn Heb “your eyes will not see.”