2 Kings 8:5

8:5 While Gehazi 1  was telling the king how Elisha 2  had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. 3  Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”

2 Kings 8:29

8:29 King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians 4  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. King Ahaziah son of Jehoram of Judah went down to visit 5  Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was ill.

2 Kings 9:15

9:15 But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians 6  when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. 7  Jehu told his supporters, 8  “If you really want me to be king, 9  then don’t let anyone escape from the city to go and warn Jezreel.”

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh 10  day of the twelfth month, 11  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 12  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 13  from prison.

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

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

3 tn Heb “and look, the woman whose son he had brought back to life was crying out to the king for her house and her field.”

sn The legal background of the situation is uncertain. For a discussion of possibilities, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 87-88.

4 tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

5 tn Heb “to see.”

6 tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

7 sn See 2 Kgs 8:28-29a.

8 tn The words “his supporters” are added for clarification.

9 tn Heb “If this is your desire.” נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) refers here to the seat of the emotions and will. For other examples of this use of the word, see BDB 660-61 s.v.

10 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

11 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

12 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

13 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.