Discovery Box2 Kings 1:14 
Context1:14 Indeed, 1 fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. 2 So now, please have respect for my life.”
2 Kings 3:21
Context3:21 Now all Moab had heard that the kings were attacking, 3 so everyone old enough to fight was mustered and placed at the border. 4
2 Kings 3:23
Context3:23 The Moabites 5 said, “It’s blood! The kings are totally destroyed! 6 They have struck one another down! Now, Moab, seize the plunder!”
2 Kings 4:26
Context4:26 Now, run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?’” She told Gehazi, 7 “Everything’s fine.”
2 Kings 6:8
Context6:8 Now the king of Syria was at war with Israel. He consulted his advisers, who said, “Invade 8 at such and such 9 a place.”
2 Kings 8:4
Context8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s 10 servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.”
2 Kings 9:16
Context9:16 Jehu drove his chariot 11 to Jezreel, for Joram was recuperating 12 there. (Now King Ahaziah of Judah had come down to visit 13 Joram.)
2 Kings 11:20
Context11:20 All the people of the land celebrated, for the city had rest now that they had killed Athaliah with the sword in the royal palace.
2 Kings 18:23
Context18:23 Now make a deal 14 with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.
2 Kings 19:19
Context19:19 Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, Lord, are the only God.”
2 Kings 25:22
Context25:22 Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over the people whom he allowed to remain in the land of Judah. 15
1 tn Heb “look.”
2 tn Heb “their fifty.”
3 tn Heb “had come up to fight them.”
4 tn Heb “and they mustered all who tied on a belt and upwards, and they stood at the border.”
5 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Moabites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn The translation assumes the verb is חָרַב (kharav, “to be desolate”). The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb form for emphasis. (For another example of the Hophal infinitive with a Niphal finite verb, see Lev 19:20. Cf. also IBHS 582 §35.2.1c.) Some prefer to derive the verb from a proposed homonym meaning “at HALOT 349 s.v. II חרב and BDB 352 s.v. חָרְבָה).
7 tn Heb “she said.” The narrator streamlines the story at this point, omitting any reference to Gehazi running to meet her and asking her the questions.
8 tc The verb form used here is difficult to analyze. On the basis of the form נְחִתִּים (nÿkhitim) in v. 9 from the root נָחַת (nakhat), it is probably best to emend the verb to תִּנְחְתוּ (tinkhÿtu; a Qal imperfect form from the same root). The verb נָחַת in at least two other instances carries the nuance “go down, descend” in a military context. For a defense of this view, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 72.
9 sn The advisers would have mentioned a specific location, but the details are not significant to the narrator’s purpose, so he simply paraphrases here.
10 tn Heb “man of God’s.”
11 tn Heb “rode [or, ‘mounted’] and went.”
12 tn Heb “lying down.”
13 tn Heb “to see.”
14 tn Heb “exchange pledges.”
15 tn Heb “And the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left, he appointed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.”
