Discovery Box2 Kings 1:15 
Context1:15 The Lord’s angelic messenger said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” So he got up and went down 1 with him to the king.
2 Kings 2:2
Context2:2 Elijah told Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel.” 2 But Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
2 Kings 2:4
Context2:4 Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” 3 But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
2 Kings 2:6
Context2:6 Elijah said to him, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they traveled on together.
2 Kings 2:10
Context2:10 Elijah 4 replied, “That’s a difficult request! 5 If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don’t, it will not happen.”
2 Kings 3:9
Context3:9 So the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom 6 set out together. They wandered around on the road for seven days and finally ran out of water for the men and animals they had with them.
2 Kings 4:8
Context4:8 One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent 7 woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. 8 So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal. 9
2 Kings 4:25
Context4:25 So she went to visit 10 the prophet at Mount Carmel. When he 11 saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, it’s the Shunammite woman.
2 Kings 4:30
Context4:30 The mother of the child said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha 12 got up and followed her back.
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.” 13 There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.
2 Kings 4:43
Context4:43 But his attendant said, “How can I feed a hundred men with this?” 14 He replied, “Set it before the people so they may eat, for this is what the Lord says, ‘They will eat and have some left over.’” 15
2 Kings 5:5
Context5:5 The king of Syria said, “Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman 16 went, taking with him ten talents 17 of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, 18 and ten suits of clothes.
2 Kings 5:8
Context5:8 When Elisha the prophet 19 heard that the king had torn his clothes, he sent this message to the king, “Why did you tear your clothes? Send him 20 to me so he may know there is a prophet in Israel.”
2 Kings 5:14
Context5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. 21 His skin became as smooth as a young child’s 22 and he was healed.
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 23 the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
2 Kings 6:20
Context6:20 When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O Lord, open their eyes, so they can see.” The Lord opened their eyes and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria. 24
2 Kings 6:23
Context6:23 So he threw a big banquet 25 for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back 26 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 7:15
Context7:15 So they tracked them 27 as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. 28 The scouts 29 went back and told the king.
2 Kings 8:8
Context8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift 30 and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, 31 ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
2 Kings 9:5
Context9:5 When he arrived, the officers of the army were sitting there. 32 So he said, “I have a message for you, O officer.” 33 Jehu asked, “For which one of us?” 34 He replied, “For you, O officer.”
2 Kings 9:18-19
Context9:18 So the horseman 35 went to meet him and said, “This is what the king says, ‘Is everything all right?’” 36 Jehu replied, “None of your business! 37 Follow me.” The watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but hasn’t started back.” 9:19 So he sent a second horseman out to them 38 and he said, “This is what the king says, ‘Is everything all right?’” 39 Jehu replied, “None of your business! Follow me.”
2 Kings 9:33
Context9:33 He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down, and when she hit the ground, 40 her blood splattered against the wall and the horses, and Jehu drove his chariot over her. 41
2 Kings 10:1
Context10:1 Ahab had seventy sons living in Samaria. 42 So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the leading officials of Jezreel and to the guardians of Ahab’s dynasty. This is what the letters said, 43
2 Kings 10:5
Context10:5 So the palace supervisor, 44 the city commissioner, 45 the leaders, 46 and the guardians sent this message to Jehu, “We are your subjects! 47 Whatever you say, we will do. We will not make anyone king. Do what you consider proper.” 48
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 17:27
Context17:27 So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you 49 deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” 50
2 Kings 18:18
Context18:18 They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them.
2 Kings 21:12
Context21:12 So this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I am about to bring disaster on Jerusalem and Judah. The news will reverberate in the ears of those who hear about it. 51
2 Kings 21:16
Context21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, 52 in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. 53
2 Kings 23:18
Context23:18 The king 54 said, “Leave it alone! No one must touch his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, as well as the bones of the Israelite prophet buried beside him. 55
1 sn In this third panel the verb “come down” (יָרַד, yarad) occurs again, this time describing Elijah’s descent from the hill at the Lord’s command. The moral of the story seems clear: Those who act as if they have authority over God and his servants just may pay for their arrogance with their lives; those who, like the third commander, humble themselves and show the proper respect for God’s authority and for his servants will be spared and find God quite cooperative.
2 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
3 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “You have made difficult [your] request.”
6 tn Heb “the king of Israel and the king of Judah and the king of Edom.”
7 tn Heb “great,” perhaps “wealthy.”
8 tn Or “she urged him to eat some food.”
9 tn Or “he would turn aside there to eat some food.”
10 tn Heb “went and came.”
11 tn Heb “the man of God.” The phrase has been replaced by the relative pronoun “he” in the translation for stylistic reasons.
12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity. The referent must be Elisha here, since the following verse makes it clear that Gehazi had gone on ahead of them.
13 tn Or “and let them eat.”
14 tn Heb “How can I set this before a hundred men?”
15 tn The verb forms are infinitives absolute (Heb “eating and leaving over”) and have to be translated in light of the context.
16 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
17 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 750 pounds of silver (cf. NCV, NLT, CEV).
18 tn Heb “six thousand gold […].” The unit of measure is not given in the Hebrew text. A number of English versions supply “pieces” (e.g., KJV, ASV, NAB, TEV) or “shekels” (e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV).
19 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 15, 20).
20 tn Heb “Let him come.”
21 tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”
22 tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”
23 tn Heb “and he saw, and look.”
24 tn Heb “and they saw, and look, [they were] in the middle of Samaria.”
25 tn Or “held a great feast.”
26 tn Heb “they went back.”
27 tn Heb “went after.”
28 tn Heb “and look, all the road was full of clothes and equipment that Syria had thrown away in their haste.”
29 tn Or “messengers.”
30 tn The Hebrew text also has “in your hand.”
31 tn Heb “Inquire of the
32 tn Heb “and he arrived and look, the officers of the army were sitting.”
33 tn Heb “[there is] a word for me to you, O officer.”
34 tn Heb “To whom from all of us?”
35 tn Heb “the rider of the horse.”
36 tn Heb “Is there peace?”
37 tn Heb “What concerning you and concerning peace?” That is, “What concern is that to you?”
38 tn Heb “and he came to them.”
39 tc The MT has simply “peace,” omitting the prefixed interrogative particle. It is likely that the particle has been accidentally omitted; several ancient witnesses include it or assume its presence.
40 tn The words “when she hit the ground” are added for stylistic reasons.
41 tn Heb “and he trampled her.”
42 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
43 tn Heb “to the officers of Jezreel, the elders, and to the guardians of Ahab, saying.” It is not certain why the officials of Jezreel would be in Samaria. They may have fled there after they heard what happened to Joram and before Jehu entered the city. They would have had time to flee while Jehu was pursuing Ahaziah.
44 tn Heb “the one who was over the house.”
45 tn Heb “the one who was over the city.”
46 tn Or “elders.”
47 tn Heb “servants.”
48 tn Heb “Do what is good in your eyes.”
49 tc The second plural subject may refer to the leaders of the Assyrian army. However, some prefer to read “whom I deported,” changing the verb to a first person singular form with a third masculine plural pronominal suffix. This reading has some support from Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic witnesses.
50 tc Heb “and let them go and let them live there, and let him teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” The two plural verbs seem inconsistent with the preceding and following contexts, where only one priest is sent back to Samaria. The singular has the support of Greek, Syriac, and Latin witnesses.
51 tn Heb “so that everyone who hears it, his two ears will quiver.”
52 tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”
53 tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the
54 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
55 tn Heb “and they left undisturbed his bones, the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.” If the phrase “the bones of the prophet” were appositional to “his bones,” one would expect the sentence to end “from Judah” (see v. 17). Apparently the “prophet” referred to in the second half of the verse is the old prophet from Bethel who buried the man of God from Judah in his own tomb and instructed his sons to bury his bones there as well (1 Kgs 13:30-31). One expects the text to read “from Bethel,” but “Samaria” (which was not even built at the time of the incident recorded in 1 Kgs 13) is probably an anachronistic reference to the northern kingdom in general. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:32 and the discussion in M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 290.
