2 Kings 4:4

4:4 Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers;¹ set aside each one when you have filled it.”

2 Kings 4:16

4:16 He said, “About this time next year² you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”

2 Kings 4:26

4:26 Now, run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?’” She told Gehazi,³ “Everything’s fine.”

2 Kings 4:36

4:36 Elisha⁴ called to Gehazi and said, “Get the Shunammite woman.” So he did so⁵ and she came to him. He said to her, “Take your son.”

2 Kings 5:10

5:10 Elisha sent out a messenger who told him, “Go and wash seven times in the Jordan; your skin will be restored⁶ and you will be healed.”

2 Kings 5:25

5:25 When he came and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” He answered, “Your servant hasn’t been anywhere.”

2 Kings 5:27

5:27 Therefore Naaman’s skin disease will afflict⁷ you and your descendants forever!” When Gehazi⁸ went out from his presence, his skin was as white as snow.⁹

2 Kings 10:2

10:2 “You have with you the sons of your master, chariots and horses, a fortified city, and weapons. So when this letter arrives,¹⁰

2 Kings 15:12

15:12 His assassination brought to fulfillment the Lord’s word to Jehu,¹¹ “Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.”¹² That is exactly what happened.¹³

2 Kings 18:19-20

18:19 The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence?¹⁴ 18:20 Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk.¹⁵ In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me?

2 Kings 19:16

19:16 Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to the message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!¹⁶

2 Kings 19:20

19:20 Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria.¹⁷

2 Kings 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you¹⁸ faithfully and with wholehearted devotion,¹⁹ and how I have carried out your will.”²⁰ Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.²¹

2 Kings 20:15

20:15 Isaiah²² asked, “What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything²³ in my treasuries.”

2 Kings 20:18

20:18 ‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father²⁴ will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

2 Kings 23:21

23:21 The king ordered all the people, “Observe the Passover of the Lord your God, as prescribed in this scroll of the covenant.”

¹tn Heb “all these vessels.”

²tn Heb “at this appointed time, at the time [when it is] reviving.” For a discussion of the second phrase see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.

³tn Heb “she said.” The narrator streamlines the story at this point, omitting any reference to Gehazi running to meet her and asking her the questions.

⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “and he called for her.”

⁶tn Heb “will return to you.”

⁷tn Heb “cling to.”

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

⁹tn Traditionally, “he went from before him, leprous like snow.” But see the note at 5:1, as well as M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 66.

¹⁰tn Heb “And now when this letter comes to you – with you are the sons of your master and with you are chariots and horses and a fortified city and weapons.”

¹¹tn Heb “It was the word of the Lord which he spoke to Jehu, saying.”

¹²tn “sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.”

sn See the note at 2 Kgs 10:30.

¹³tn Heb “and it was so.”

¹⁴tn Heb “What is this object of trust in which you are trusting?”

¹⁵tn Heb “you say only a word of lips, counsel and might for battle.” Sennacherib’s message appears to be in broken Hebrew at this point. The phrase “word of lips” refers to mere or empty talk in Prov 14:23.

¹⁶tn Heb “Hear the words of Sennacherib which he sent to taunt the living God.”

¹⁷tn Heb “That which you prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.” The verb “I have heard” does not appear in the parallel passage in Isa 37:21, where אֲשֶׁר (’asher) probably has a causal sense, “because.”

¹⁸tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

¹⁹tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

²⁰tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

²¹tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”

²²tn Heb “he”; the referent (Isaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²³tn Heb “there was nothing I did not show them.”

²⁴tn Heb “Some of your sons, who go out from you, whom you father.”