2 Kings 5:27
5:27 Therefore Naaman’s skin disease will afflict 1 you and your descendants forever!” When Gehazi 2 went out from his presence, his skin was as white as snow. 3
2 Kings 15:12
15:12 His assassination brought to fulfillment the Lord’s word to Jehu, 4 “Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” 5 That is exactly what happened. 6
2 Kings 17:20
17:20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated 7 them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.
2 Kings 20:18
20:18 ‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father 8 will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”
1 tn Heb “cling to.”
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn 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.
4 tn Heb “It was the word of the Lord which he spoke to Jehu, saying.”
5 tn “sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.”
sn See the note at 2 Kgs 10:30.
6 tn Heb “and it was so.”
7 tn Or “afflicted.”
8 tn Heb “Some of your sons, who go out from you, whom you father.”