Discovery Box2 Kings 1:10 
Context1:10 Elijah replied to the captain, 1 “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down 2 from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.
2 Kings 2:12
Context2:12 While Elisha was watching, he was crying out, “My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!” 3 Then he could no longer see him. He grabbed his clothes and tore them in two.
2 Kings 2:21
Context2:21 He went out to the spring and threw the salt in. Then he said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have purified 4 this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops.” 5
2 Kings 4:6-7
Context4:6 When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons, 6 “Bring me another container.” But he answered her, “There are no more.” Then the olive oil stopped flowing. 4:7 She went and told the prophet. 7 He said, “Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit.”
2 Kings 4:35
Context4:35 Elisha 8 went back and walked around in the house. 9 Then he got up on the bed again 10 and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
2 Kings 4:41
Context4:41 He said, “Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said, “Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.” 11 There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.
2 Kings 5:17
Context5:17 Naaman said, “If not, then please give your servant a load of dirt, enough for a pair of mules to carry, 12 for your servant will never again offer a burnt offering or sacrifice to a god other than the Lord. 13
2 Kings 6:17
Context6:17 Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes so he can see.” The Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw that 14 the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
2 Kings 6:19
Context6:19 Then Elisha said to them, “This is not the right road or city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you’re looking for.” He led them to Samaria. 15
2 Kings 6:23
Context6:23 So he threw a big banquet 16 for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back 17 to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.
2 Kings 6:29
Context6:29 So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, ‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”
2 Kings 7:16
Context7:16 Then the people went out and looted the Syrian camp. A seah 18 of finely milled flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, just as the Lord had said they would. 19
2 Kings 8:15
Context8:15 The next day Hazael 20 took a piece of cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over Ben Hadad’s 21 face until he died. Then Hazael replaced him as king.
2 Kings 9:3
Context9:3 Take the container of olive oil, pour it over his head, and say, ‘This is what the Lord says, “I have designated 22 you as king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and run away quickly!” 23
2 Kings 9:14
Context9:14 Then Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.
Now Joram had been in Ramoth Gilead with the whole Israelite army, 24 guarding against an invasion by King Hazael of Syria.
2 Kings 9:34
Context9:34 He went inside and had a meal. 25 Then he said, “Dispose of this accursed woman’s corpse. Bury her, for after all, she was a king’s daughter.” 26
2 Kings 10:9
Context10:9 In the morning he went out and stood there. Then he said to all the people, “You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all of these men?
2 Kings 10:14
Context10:14 He said, “Capture them alive!” So they captured them alive and then executed all forty-two of them in the cistern at Beth Eked. He left no survivors.
2 Kings 10:23
Context10:23 Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went to the temple of Baal. Jehu 27 said to the servants of Baal, “Make sure there are no servants of the Lord here with you; there must be only servants of Baal.” 28
2 Kings 12:11
Context12:11 They would then hand over 29 the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen 30 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,
2 Kings 14:14
Context14:14 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages. 31 Then he went back to Samaria. 32
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2 Kings 15:25
Context15:25 His officer Pekah son of Remaliah conspired against him. He and fifty Gileadites assassinated Pekahiah, as well as Argob and Arieh, in Samaria in the fortress of the royal palace. 33 Pekah then took his place as king.
2 Kings 16:8
Context16:8 Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were 34 in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute 35 to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 20:19
Context20:19 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The Lord’s word which you have announced is appropriate.” 36 Then he added, 37 “At least there will be peace and stability during my lifetime.” 38
2 Kings 22:20
Context22:20 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. 39 You will not have to witness 40 all the disaster I will bring on this place.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.
2 Kings 23:6
Context23:6 He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. 41 He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard. 42
2 Kings 25:7
Context25:7 Zedekiah’s sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch. 43 The king of Babylon 44 then had Zedekiah’s eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:26
Context25:26 Then all the people, from the youngest to the oldest, as well as the army officers, left for 45 Egypt, because they were afraid of what the Babylonians might do.
1 tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”
2 tn Wordplay contributes to the irony here. The king tells Elijah to “come down” (Hebrew יָרַד, yarad), but Elijah calls fire down (יָרַד) on the arrogant king’s officer.
3 sn Elisha may be referring to the fiery chariot(s) and horses as the Lord’s spiritual army that fights on behalf of Israel (see 2 Kgs 6:15-17; 7:6). However, the juxtaposition with “my father” (clearly a reference to Elijah as Elisha’s mentor), and the parallel in 2 Kgs 13:14 (where the king addresses Elisha with these words), suggest that Elisha is referring to Elijah. In this case Elijah is viewed as a one man army, as it were. When the Lord spoke through him, his prophetic word was as powerful as an army of chariots and horses. See M. A. Beek, “The Meaning of the Expression ‘The Chariots and Horsemen of Israel’ (II Kings ii 12),” The Witness of Tradition (OTS 17), 1-10.
4 tn Or “healed.”
5 tn Heb “there will no longer be from there death and miscarriage [or, ‘barrenness’].”
6 tn Heb “to her son.”
7 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 16, 22, 25, 27 [twice]).
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”
10 tn Heb “and he went up.”
11 tn Or “and let them eat.”
12 tn Heb “and [if] not, may there be given to your servant a load [for] a pair of mules, earth.”
13 tn Heb “for your servant will not again make a burnt offering and sacrifice to other gods, only to the
14 tn Heb “and he saw, and look.”
15 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
16 tn Or “held a great feast.”
17 tn Heb “they went back.”
18 sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.
19 tn Heb “according to the word of the
20 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hazael) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
21 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22 tn Heb “anointed.”
23 tn Heb “and open the door and run away and do not delay.”
24 tn Heb “he and all Israel.”
25 tn Heb “and he went and ate and drank.”
26 tn Heb “Attend to this accursed woman and bury her for she was the daughter of a king.”
27 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
28 tn Heb “Search carefully and observe so that there are not here with you any servants of the
29 tn Heb “would give.”
30 tn Heb “doers of the work.”
31 tn Heb “the sons of the pledges.”
32 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
33 tn Heb “and he struck him down in Samaria in the fortress of the house of the king, Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men from the sons of the Gileadites, and they killed him.”
sn The precise identity of Argob and Arieh, as well as their relationship to the king, are uncertain. The usual assumption is that they were officials assassinated along with Pekahiah, or that they were two of the more prominent Gileadites involved in the revolt. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 173.
34 tn Heb “that was found.”
35 tn Or “bribe money.”
36 tn Heb “good.”
37 tn Heb “and he said.” Many English versions translate, “for he thought.” The verb אָמַר (’amar), “say,” is sometimes used of what one thinks (that is, says to oneself). Cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT.
38 tn Heb “Is it not [true] there will be peace and stability in my days?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, there will be peace and stability.”
39 tn Heb “Therefore, look, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”
40 tn Heb “your eyes will not see.”
41 tn Heb “and he burned it in the Kidron Valley.”
42 tc Heb “on the grave of the sons of the people.” Some Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses read the plural “graves.”
tn The phrase “sons of the people” refers here to the common people (see BDB 766 s.v. עַם), as opposed to the upper classes who would have private tombs.
43 tn Heb “were killed before his eyes.”
44 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
45 tn Heb “arose and went to.”
