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 3:13
Context3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here? 3 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 9:6
Context9:6 So Jehu 4 got up and went inside. Then the prophet 5 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 9:12
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, 6 “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have designated you as king over Israel.’”
2 Kings 15:5
Context15:5 The Lord afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease 7 until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, 8 while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.
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 tn Or “What do we have in common?” The text reads literally, “What to me and to you?”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 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.
7 tn Traditionally, “he was a leper.” But see the note at 5:1.
8 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.
