Discovery Box2 Kings 1:16 
Context1:16 Elijah 1 said to the king, 2 “This is what the Lord says, ‘You sent messengers to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. You must think there is no God in Israel from whom you can seek an oracle! 3 Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.’” 4
2 Kings 2:15-16
Context2:15 When the members of the prophetic guild in Jericho, 5 who were standing at a distance, 6 saw him do this, they said, “The spirit that energized Elijah 7 rests upon Elisha.” They went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him. 2:16 They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord 8 may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha 9 replied, “Don’t send them out.”
2 Kings 3:13
Context3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here? 10 Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”
2 Kings 4:13
Context4:13 Elisha said to Gehazi, 11 “Tell her, ‘Look, you have treated us with such great respect. 12 What can I do for you? Can I put in a good word for you with the king or the commander of the army?’” She replied, “I’m quite secure.” 13
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. 14 The Lord has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn’t tell me about it.”
2 Kings 4:42
Context4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet 15 – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. 16 Elisha 17 said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”
2 Kings 5:7
Context5:7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill or restore life? Why does he ask me to cure a man of his skin disease? 18 Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!” 19
2 Kings 5:15
Context5:15 He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman 20 came and stood before him. He said, “For sure 21 I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.”
2 Kings 6:32
Context6:32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. 22 The king 23 sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, 24 Elisha 25 said to the leaders, 26 “Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?” 27 Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.” 28
2 Kings 7:2
Context7:2 An officer who was the king’s right-hand man 29 responded to the prophet, 30 “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” 31 Elisha 32 said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!” 33
2 Kings 7:6
Context7:6 The Lord had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!”
2 Kings 7:9
Context7:9 Then they said to one another, “It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone. 34 If we wait until dawn, 35 we’ll be punished. 36 So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”
2 Kings 7:12
Context7:12 The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, 37 “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”
2 Kings 7:19
Context7:19 But the officer replied to the prophet, “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” 38 Elisha 39 said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!” 40
2 Kings 8:5
Context8:5 While Gehazi 41 was telling the king how Elisha 42 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. 43 Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”
2 Kings 8:9
Context8:9 So Hazael went to visit Elisha. 44 He took along a gift, 45 as well as 46 forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said, “Your son, 47 King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question, 48 ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
2 Kings 9:6
Context9:6 So Jehu 49 got up and went inside. Then the prophet 50 poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I have designated you as king over the Lord’s people Israel.
2 Kings 9:26
Context9:26 ‘“Know for sure that I saw the shed blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday,” says the Lord, “and that I will give you what you deserve right here in this plot of land,” 51 says the Lord.’ So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as the Lord said.” 52
2 Kings 12:4
Context12:4 Jehoash said to the priests, “I place at your disposal 53 all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the Lord’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, 54 the silver received from those who have made vows, 55 and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the Lord’s temple. 56
2 Kings 12:7
Context12:7 So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage.” 57
2 Kings 18:26-27
Context18:26 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, 58 for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect 59 in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” 18:27 But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. 60 His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.” 61
2 Kings 19:4
Context19:4 Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. 62 When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. 63 So pray for this remnant that remains.’” 64
2 Kings 21:7
Context21:7 He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. 65
2 Kings 25:24
Context25:24 Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. 66 He said, “You don’t need to be afraid to submit to the Babylonian officials. Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you.”
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “Because you sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is there no God in Israel to inquire of his word?”
4 sn For the third time in this chapter we read the Lord’s sarcastic question to king and the accompanying announcement of judgment. The repetition emphasizes one of the chapter’s main themes. Israel’s leaders should seek guidance from their own God, not a pagan deity, for Israel’s sovereign God is the one who controls life and death.
5 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
6 tn Heb “and the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho, [who were standing] opposite, saw him and said.”
7 tn Heb “the spirit of Elijah.”
8 tn Or “the spirit of the
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Or “What do we have in common?” The text reads literally, “What to me and to you?”
11 tn Heb “he said to him.”
12 tn Heb “you have turned trembling to us with all this trembling.” The exaggerated language is probably idiomatic. The point seems to be that she has taken great pains or gone out of her way to be kind to them. Her concern was a sign of her respect for the prophetic office.
13 tn Heb “Among my people I am living.” This answer suggests that she has security within the context of her family.
14 tn Heb “her soul [i.e., ‘disposition’] is bitter.”
15 tn Heb “man of God.”
16 tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.
17 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
18 tn Heb “Am I God, killing and restoring life, that this one sends to me to cure a man from his skin disease?” In the Hebrew text this is one lengthy rhetorical question, which has been divided up in the translation for stylistic reasons.
19 tn Heb “Indeed, know and see that he is seeking an occasion with respect to me.”
20 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
21 tn Heb “look.”
22 tn Heb “and the elders were sitting with him.”
23 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
24 tn Heb “sent a man from before him, before the messenger came to him.”
25 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
26 tn Heb “elders.”
27 tn Heb “Do you see that this son of an assassin has sent to remove my head?”
28 tn Heb “Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
29 tn Heb “the officer on whose hand the king leans.”
30 tn Heb “man of God.”
31 tn Heb “the
32 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
33 tn Heb “you will not eat from there.”
34 tn Heb “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”
35 tn Heb “the light of the morning.”
36 tn Heb “punishment will find us.”
37 tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 13).
38 tn Heb “the
39 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
40 tn Heb “you will not eat from there.”
tn In the Hebrew text vv. 18-19a are one lengthy sentence, “When the man of God spoke to the king…, the officer replied to the man of God, ‘Look…so soon?’” The translation divides this sentence up for stylistic reasons.
41 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
42 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
43 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.
44 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
45 tn The Hebrew text also has “in his hand.”
46 tn Heb “and.” It is possible that the conjunction is here explanatory, equivalent to English “that is.” In this case the forty camel loads constitute the “gift” and one should translate, “He took along a gift, consisting of forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus.”
47 sn The words “your son” emphasize the king’s respect for the prophet.
48 tn Heb “saying.”
49 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
50 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
51 tn Heb “and I will repay you in this plot of land.”
52 tn Heb “according to the word of the
53 tn The words “I place at your disposal” are added in the translation for clarification.
54 tn Heb “the silver of passing over a man.” The precise meaning of the phrase is debated, but עָבַר (’avar), “pass over,” probably refers here to counting, suggesting the reference is to a census conducted for taxation purposes. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.
55 tn Heb “the silver of persons, his valuation.” The precise meaning of the phrase is uncertain, but parallels in Lev 27 suggest that personal vows are referred to here. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.
56 tn Heb “all the silver which goes up on the heart of a man to bring to the house of the
57 tn Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers, because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”
58 sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.
59 tn Or “Hebrew.”
60 tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.
61 tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”
sn The chief adviser alludes to the horrible reality of siege warfare, when the starving people in the besieged city would resort to eating and drinking anything to stay alive.
62 tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.”
63 tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the
64 tn Heb “and lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.”
65 tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name perpetually (or perhaps “forever”).”
66 tn The words “so as to give them…some assurance of safety” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
