Discovery Box2 Kings 1:1 
Context1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. 1
2 Kings 4:27
Context4:27 But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said, “Leave her alone, for she is very upset. 2 The Lord has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn’t tell me about it.”
2 Kings 7:13
Context7:13 One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!) 3 Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.” 4
2 Kings 8:6
Context8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. 5 The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, 6 “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”
2 Kings 14:12
Context14:12 Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home. 7
2 Kings 23:15
Context23:15 He also tore down the altar in Bethel 8 at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. 9 He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole. 10
1 sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22.
2 tn Heb “her soul [i.e., ‘disposition’] is bitter.”
3 tn Heb “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.” The MT is dittographic here; the words “that remain in it. Look they are like all the people of Israel” have been accidentally repeated. The original text read, “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.”
4 tn Heb “and let us send so we might see.”
5 tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”
6 tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”
7 tn Heb “and Judah was struck down before Israel and they fled, each to his tent.”
8 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
9 tn Heb “And also the altar that is in Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin, also that altar and the high place he tore down.” The more repetitive Hebrew text is emphatic.
10 tn Heb “he burned the high place, crushing to dust, and he burned the Asherah pole.” High places per se are never referred to as being burned elsewhere. בָּמָה (bamah) here stands by metonymy for the combustible items located on the high place. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.
