2 Kings 6:31

6:31 Then he said, “May God judge me severely ¹  if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!” ² 

2 Kings 8:22

8:22 So Edom has remained free from Judah’s control to this very day. ³  At that same time Libnah also rebelled.

2 Kings 10:27

10:27 They demolished ⁴  the sacred pillar of Baal and ⁵  the temple of Baal; it is used as ⁶  a latrine ⁷  to this very day.

2 Kings 14:7

14:7 He defeated ⁸  10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.

2 Kings 16:6

16:6 (At that time King Rezin of Syria ⁹  recovered Elat for Syria; he drove the Judahites from there. ¹⁰  Syrians ¹¹  arrived in Elat and live there to this very day.)

2 Kings 21:15

21:15 because they have done evil in my sight ¹²  and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”

2 Kings 25:3

25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹³  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ¹⁴  had no food.

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¹ tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”

² tn Heb “if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

³ tn Heb “and Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah until this day.”

⁴ tn Or “pulled down.”

⁵ tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.

⁶ tn Heb “and they made it into.”

⁷ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has the hapax legomenon מַחֲרָאוֹת (makhara’ot), “places to defecate” or “dung houses” (note the related noun חרא (khr’)/חרי (khri), “dung,” HALOT 348-49 s.v. *חֲרָאִים). The marginal reading (Qere) glosses this, perhaps euphemistically, מוֹצָאוֹת (motsa’ot), “outhouses.”

⁸ tn Or “struck down.”

⁹ tc Some prefer to read “the king of Edom” and “for Edom” here. The names Syria (Heb “Aram,” אֲרָם, ’aram) and Edom (אֱדֹם, ’edom) are easily confused in the Hebrew consonantal script.

¹⁰ tn Heb “from Elat.”

¹¹ tc The consonantal text (Kethib), supported by many medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac version, and some mss of the Targum and Vulgate, read “Syrians” (Heb “Arameans”). The marginal reading (Qere), supported by the LXX, Targums, and Vulgate, reads “Edomites.”

¹² tn Heb “in my eyes.”

¹³ tn The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.

sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

¹⁴ tn Heb “the people of the land.”