2 Kings 6:25

6:25 Samaria’s food supply ran out. ¹  They laid siege to it so long that ²  a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver ³  and a quarter of a kab ⁴  of dove’s droppings ⁵  for five shekels of silver. ⁶ 

2 Kings 6:32

6:32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. ⁷  The king ⁸  sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, ⁹  Elisha ¹⁰  said to the leaders, ¹¹  “Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?” ¹²  Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.” ¹³ 

2 Kings 9:6

9:6 So Jehu ¹⁴  got up and went inside. Then the prophet ¹⁵  poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I have designated you as king over the Lord’s people Israel.

2 Kings 23:30

23:30 His servants transported his dead body ¹⁶  from Megiddo in a chariot and brought it to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his tomb. The people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, poured olive oil on his head, ¹⁷  and made him king in his father’s place.

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¹ tn Heb “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”

² tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”

³ tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

⁴ sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately one quart.

⁵ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) reads, “dove dung” (חֲרֵייוֹנִים, khareyonim), while the marginal reading (Qere) has “discharge” (דִּבְיוֹנִים, divyonim). Based on evidence from Akkadian, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 79) suggest that “dove’s dung” was a popular name for the inedible husks of seeds.

⁶ tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

⁷ tn Heb “and the elders were sitting with him.”

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “sent a man from before him, before the messenger came to him.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “elders.”

¹² tn Heb “Do you see that this son of an assassin has sent to remove my head?”

¹³ tn Heb “Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”

¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁶ tn Heb “him, dead.”

¹⁷ tn Or “anointed him.”