2 Kings 5:16

5:16 But Elisha ¹  replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives (whom I serve), ²  I will take nothing from you.” Naaman ³  insisted that he take it, but he refused.

2 Kings 19:24

19:24 I dug wells and drank

water in foreign lands. ⁴ 

With the soles of my feet I dried up

all the rivers of Egypt.’

2 Kings 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ⁵  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ⁶  and how I have carried out your will.” ⁷  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ⁸ 

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

² tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

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

⁴ tn Heb “I dug and drank foreign waters.”

⁵ tn 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.

⁶ tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

⁷ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

⁸ tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”