2 Kings 5:16

5:16 But Elisha¹ replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives (whom I serve),² I will take nothing from you.” Naaman³ insisted that he take it, but he refused.

2 Kings 11:17

11:17 Jehoiada then drew up a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, stipulating that they should be loyal to the Lord.⁴

2 Kings 13:4

13:4 Jehoahaz asked for the Lord’s mercy⁵ and the Lord responded favorably,⁶ for he saw that Israel was oppressed by the king of Syria.⁷

2 Kings 18:6

18:6 He was loyal to⁸ the Lord and did not abandon him.⁹ He obeyed the commandments which the Lord had given to¹⁰ Moses.

2 Kings 18:25

18:25 Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March¹¹ up against this land and destroy it.’”’”¹²

2 Kings 18:30

18:30 Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord when he says, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”

2 Kings 19:14

19:14 Hezekiah took the letter¹³ from the messengers and read it.¹⁴ Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.

2 Kings 21:2

21:2 He did evil in the sight of¹⁵ the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations¹⁶ whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

2 Kings 21:21

21:21 He followed in the footsteps of his father¹⁷ and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols¹⁸ which his father had worshiped.¹⁹

2 Kings 22:5

22:5 Have them hand it over to the construction foremen²⁰ assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it,²¹

2 Kings 22:8

22:8 Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it.

2 Kings 24:20

24:20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence.²² Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

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

⁴tn Heb “and Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and [between] the king and [between] the people, to become a people for the Lord, and between the king and [between] the people.” The final words of the verse (“and between the king and [between] the people”) are probably accidentally repeated from earlier in the verse. They do not appear in the parallel account in 2 Chr 23:16. If retained, they probably point to an agreement governing how the king and people should relate to one another.

⁵tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord.”

⁶tn Heb “and the Lord heard.”

⁷tn Heb “for he saw the oppression of Israel, for the king of Syria oppressed them.”

⁸tn Heb “he hugged.”

⁹tn Heb “and did not turn aside from after him.”

¹⁰tn Heb “had commanded.”

¹¹tn Heb “Go.”

¹²sn In v. 25 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 22. He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commissioned Assyria as his instrument of discipline and judgment.

¹³tc The MT has the plural, “letters,” but the final mem is probably dittographic (note the initial mem on the form that immediately follows). Some Greek and Aramaic witnesses have the singular.

¹⁴tc The MT has the plural suffix, “them,” but this probably reflects a later harmonization to the preceding textual corruption (of “letter” to “letters”). The parallel passage in Isa 37:14 has the singular suffix.

¹⁵tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹⁶tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

¹⁷tn Heb “walked in all the way which his father walked.”

¹⁸sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

¹⁹tn Heb “and he served the disgusting idols which his father served and he bowed down to them.”

²⁰tn Heb “doers of the work.”

²¹tn Heb “and let them give it to the doers of the work who are in the house of the Lord to repair the damages to the house.”

²²tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the Lord this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until he threw them out from upon his face.”