2 Kings 6:18

6:18 As they approached him, ¹  Elisha prayed to the Lord, “Strike these people ²  with blindness.” ³  The Lord ⁴  struck them with blindness as Elisha requested. ⁵ 

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. ⁶ 

2 Kings 13:4

13:4 Jehoahaz asked for the Lord’s mercy ⁷  and the Lord responded favorably, ⁸  for he saw that Israel was oppressed by the king of Syria. ⁹ 

2 Kings 17:11

17:11 They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 17:25

17:25 When they first moved in, ¹¹  they did not worship ¹²  the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.

2 Kings 18:6

18:6 He was loyal to ¹³  the Lord and did not abandon him. ¹⁴  He obeyed the commandments which the Lord had given to ¹⁵  Moses.

2 Kings 19:14

19:14 Hezekiah took the letter ¹⁶  from the messengers and read it. ¹⁷  Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.

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! ¹⁸ 

2 Kings 19:19

19:19 Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, Lord, are the only God.”

2 Kings 20:11

20:11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord ¹⁹  made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz. ²⁰ 

2 Kings 21:2

21:2 He did evil in the sight of ²¹  the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations ²²  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

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¹ tn Heb “and they came down to him.”

² tn Or “this nation,” perhaps emphasizing the strength of the Syrian army.

³ tn On the basis of the Akkadian etymology of the word, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 74) translate “blinding light.” HALOT 761 s.v. סַנְוֵרִים suggests the glosses “dazzling, deception.”

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

⁵ tn Heb “according to the word of Elisha.”

⁶ tn 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.

⁷ tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord.”

⁸ tn Heb “and the Lord heard.”

⁹ tn Heb “for he saw the oppression of Israel, for the king of Syria oppressed them.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and they did evil things, angering the Lord.”

¹¹ tn Heb “in the beginning of their living there.”

¹² tn Heb “fear.”

¹³ tn Heb “he hugged.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and did not turn aside from after him.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “had commanded.”

¹⁶ tc 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.

¹⁷ tc 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.

¹⁸ tn Heb “Hear the words of Sennacherib which he sent to taunt the living God.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁰ tn Heb “on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.”

sn These steps probably functioned as a type of sundial. See HALOT 614 s.v. מַעֲלָה and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 256.

²¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²² tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”