Discovery Box2 Kings 1:17 
Context1:17 He died just as the Lord had prophesied through Elijah. 1 In the second year of the reign of King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah, Ahaziah’s brother Jehoram replaced him as king of Israel, because he had no son. 2
2 Kings 2:2-6
Context2:2 Elijah told Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel.” 3 But Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel. 2:3 Some members of the prophetic guild 4 in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” 5 He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”
2:4 Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” 6 But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho. 2:5 Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”
2:6 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 2:21
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 7 this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops.” 8
2 Kings 3:14
Context3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all 9 lives (whom I serve), 10 if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah, 11 I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you. 12
2 Kings 4:43
Context4:43 But his attendant said, “How can I feed a hundred men with this?” 13 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.’” 14
2 Kings 5:1
Context5:1 Now Naaman, the commander of the king of Syria’s army, was esteemed and respected by his master, 15 for through him the Lord had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease. 16
2 Kings 7:1
Context7:1 Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord says, ‘About this time tomorrow a seah 17 of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.’”
2 Kings 8:13
Context8:13 Hazael said, “How could your servant, who is as insignificant as a dog, accomplish this great military victory?” 18 Elisha answered, “The Lord has revealed to me that you will be the king of Syria.” 19
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 20 you as king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and run away quickly!” 21
2 Kings 9:12
Context9:12 But they said, “You’re lying! Tell us what he said.” So he told them what he had said. He also related how he had said, 22 “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have designated you as king over Israel.’”
2 Kings 9:36
Context9:36 When they went back and told him, he said, “The Lord’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, 23 ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.
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 10:23
Context10:23 Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went to the temple of Baal. Jehu 24 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.” 25
2 Kings 11:8
Context11:8 You must surround the king. Each of you must hold his weapon in his hand. Whoever approaches your ranks must be killed. You must accompany the king wherever he goes.” 26
2 Kings 11:15
Context11:15 Jehoiada the priest ordered the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, 27 “Bring her outside the temple to the guards. 28 Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord’s temple. 29
2 Kings 11:18-19
Context11:18 All the people of the land went and demolished 30 the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols 31 to bits. 32 They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest 33 then placed guards at the Lord’s temple. 11:19 He took the officers of the units of hundreds, the Carians, the royal bodyguard, and all the people of land, and together they led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Gate of the Royal Bodyguard, 34 and the king 35 sat down on the royal throne.
2 Kings 13:23
Context13:23 But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them. 36 He extended his favor to them 37 because of the promise he had made 38 to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day. 39
2 Kings 15:5
Context15:5 The Lord afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease 40 until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, 41 while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.
2 Kings 16:3
Context16:3 He followed in the footsteps of 42 the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, 43 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 44 whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.
2 Kings 16:14
Context16:14 He moved the bronze altar that stood in the Lord’s presence from the front of the temple (between the altar and the Lord’s temple) and put it on the north side of the new 45 altar.
2 Kings 17:23
Context17:23 Finally 46 the Lord rejected Israel 47 just as he had warned he would do 48 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.
2 Kings 19:6
Context19:6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. 49
2 Kings 19:25
Context19:25 50 Certainly you must have heard! 51
Long ago I worked it out,
In ancient times I planned 52 it;
and now I am bringing it to pass.
The plan is this:
Fortified cities will crash
into heaps of ruins. 53
2 Kings 19:32
Context19:32 So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:
“He will not enter this city,
nor will he shoot an arrow here. 54
He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors, 55
nor will he build siege works against it.
2 Kings 19:35
Context19:35 That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they 56 got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. 57
2 Kings 20:3
Context20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you 58 faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, 59 and how I have carried out your will.” 60 Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. 61
2 Kings 20:17
Context20:17 ‘Look, a time is 62 coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.
2 Kings 21:11
Context21:11 “King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. 63 He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols. 64
2 Kings 21:16
Context21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, 65 in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. 66
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. 67 He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard. 68
2 Kings 23:19
Context23:19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. 69 He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. 70
2 Kings 23:25
Context23:25 No king before or after repented before the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses. 71
2 Kings 23:27
Context23:27 The Lord announced, “I will also spurn Judah, 72 just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose – both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, “I will live there.” 73
1 tn Heb “according to the word of the
2 tn Heb “Jehoram replaced him as king…because he had no son.” Some ancient textual witnesses add “his brother,” which was likely added on the basis of the statement later in the verse that Ahaziah had no son.
3 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
4 tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”
5 tn Heb “from your head.” The same expression occurs in v. 5.
6 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
7 tn Or “healed.”
8 tn Heb “there will no longer be from there death and miscarriage [or, ‘barrenness’].”
9 tn Traditionally “the
10 tn Heb “before whom I stand.”
11 tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”
12 tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”
13 tn Heb “How can I set this before a hundred men?”
14 tn The verb forms are infinitives absolute (Heb “eating and leaving over”) and have to be translated in light of the context.
15 tn Heb “was a great man before his master and lifted up with respect to the face.”
16 tn For a discussion of מְצֹרָע (mÿtsora’), traditionally translated “leprous,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 63. Naaman probably had a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy/Hansen’s disease.
17 sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.
18 tn Heb “Indeed, what is your servant, a dog, that he could do this great thing?” With his reference to a dog, Hazael is not denying that he is a “dog” and protesting that he would never commit such a dastardly “dog-like” deed. Rather, as Elisha’s response indicates, Hazael is suggesting that he, like a dog, is too insignificant to ever be in a position to lead such conquests.
19 tn Heb “The
20 tn Heb “anointed.”
21 tn Heb “and open the door and run away and do not delay.”
22 tn Heb “So he said, ‘Like this and like this he said to me, saying.’” The words “like this and like this” are probably not a direct quote of Jehu’s words to his colleagues. Rather this is the narrator’s way of avoiding repetition and indicating that Jehu repeated, or at least summarized, what the prophet had said to him.
23 tn Heb “It is the word of the
24 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
25 tn Heb “Search carefully and observe so that there are not here with you any servants of the
26 tn Heb “and be with the king in his going out and in his coming in.”
27 tn The Hebrew text also has, “and said to them.” This is redundant in English and has not been translated.
28 tn Heb “ranks.”
29 tn Heb “for the priest had said, ‘Let her not be put to death in the house of the
30 tn Or “tore down.”
31 tn Or “images.”
32 tn The Hebrew construction translated “smashed…to bits” is emphatic. The adverbial infinitive absolute (הֵיטֵב [hetev], “well”) accompanying the Piel form of the verb שָׁבַר (shavar), “break,” suggests thorough demolition.
33 tn Heb “the priest.” Jehoiada’s name is added for clarification.
34 tn Heb “the Gate of the Runners of the House of the King.”
35 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
36 tn Or “showed them compassion.”
37 tn Heb “he turned to them.”
38 tn Heb “because of his covenant with.”
39 tn Heb “until now.”
40 tn Traditionally, “he was a leper.” But see the note at 5:1.
41 tn The precise meaning of בֵית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhofÿshit), “house of […?],” is uncertain. For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.
42 tn Heb “he walked in the way of.”
43 sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.
44 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
45 tn The word “new” is added in the translation for clarification.
46 tn Heb “until.”
47 tn Heb “the
48 tn Heb “just as he said.”
49 tn Heb “by which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.”
50 tn Having quoted the Assyrian king’s arrogant words in vv. 23-24, the Lord now speaks to the king.
51 tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say.
52 tn Heb “formed.”
53 tn Heb “and it is to cause to crash into heaps of ruins fortified cities.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb תְּהִי (tÿhi) is the implied plan, referred to in the preceding lines with third feminine singular pronominal suffixes.
54 tn Heb “there.”
55 tn Heb “[with] a shield.” By metonymy the “shield” stands for the soldier who carries it.
56 tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.
57 tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies.”
58 tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.
59 tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”
60 tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”
61 tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”
62 tn Heb “days are.”
63 tn Heb “these horrible sins.”
64 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
65 tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”
66 tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the
67 tn Heb “and he burned it in the Kidron Valley.”
68 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.
69 tc Heb “which the kings of Israel had made, angering.” The object has been accidentally omitted in the MT. It appears in the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate versions.
70 tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”
map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
71 tn Heb “and like him there was not a king before him who returned to the
sn The description of Josiah’s devotion as involving his whole “heart, soul, and being” echoes the language of Deut 6:5.
72 tn Heb “Also Judah I will turn away from my face.”
73 tn Heb “My name will be there.”
