2 Kings 4:8

Elisha Gives Life to a Boy

4:8 One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent ¹  woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. ²  So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal. ³ 

2 Kings 6:29

6:29 So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, ‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”

2 Kings 8:15

8:15 The next day Hazael ⁴  took a piece of cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over Ben Hadad’s ⁵  face until he died. Then Hazael replaced him as king.

2 Kings 17:23

17:23 Finally ⁶  the Lord rejected Israel ⁷  just as he had warned he would do ⁸  through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

2 Kings 17:34

17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship ⁹  the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave ¹⁰  the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

2 Kings 17:41

17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

2 Kings 19:3

19:3 “This is what Hezekiah says: ¹¹  ‘This is a day of distress, insults, ¹²  and humiliation, ¹³  as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. ¹⁴ 

2 Kings 19:37

19:37 One day, ¹⁵  as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, ¹⁶  his sons ¹⁷  Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. ¹⁸  They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

2 Kings 20:8

20:8 Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What is the confirming sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the Lord’s temple the day after tomorrow?”

2 Kings 20:17

20:17 ‘Look, a time is ¹⁹  coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh ²⁰  day of the fifth month, ²¹  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ²²  who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. ²³ 

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¹ tn Heb “great,” perhaps “wealthy.”

² tn Or “she urged him to eat some food.”

³ tn Or “he would turn aside there to eat some food.”

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

⁵ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “until.”

⁷ tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”

⁸ tn Heb “just as he said.”

⁹ tn Heb “fear.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “commanded.”

¹¹ tn In the Hebrew text this verse begins with “they said to him.”

¹² tn Or “rebuke,” “correction.”

¹³ tn Or “contempt.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “when sons come to the cervical opening and there is no strength to give birth.”

¹⁵ sn The assassination probably took place in 681 b.c.

¹⁶ sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.

¹⁷ tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions. Cf. Isa 37:38.

¹⁸ sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.

¹⁹ tn Heb “days are.”

²⁰ tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

²¹ sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

²² tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

²³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.