Discovery Box2 Kings 1:2 
Context1:2 Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria 1 and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders, 2 “Go, ask 3 Baal Zebub, 4 the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.”
2 Kings 1:10
Context1:10 Elijah replied to the captain, 5 “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down 6 from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.
2 Kings 1:12
Context1:12 Elijah replied to them, 7 “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire from God 8 came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.
2 Kings 2:2-6
Context2:2 Elijah told Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel.” 9 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 10 in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” 11 He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”
2:4 Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” 12 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 13 this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops.” 14
2 Kings 4:2
Context4:2 Elisha said to her, “What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil.”
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 15 got up and followed her back.
2 Kings 4:43
Context4:43 But his attendant said, “How can I feed a hundred men with this?” 16 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.’” 17
2 Kings 5:5-6
Context5:5 The king of Syria said, “Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman 18 went, taking with him ten talents 19 of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, 20 and ten suits of clothes. 5:6 He brought the letter to king of Israel. It read: “This is a letter of introduction for my servant Naaman, 21 whom I have sent to be cured of his skin disease.”
2 Kings 5:11
Context5:11 Naaman went away angry. He said, “Look, I thought for sure he would come out, stand there, invoke the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the area, and cure the skin disease.
2 Kings 5:20
Context5:20 Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought, 22 “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. 23 As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.”
2 Kings 6:19
Context6:19 Then Elisha said to them, “This is not the right road or city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you’re looking for.” He led them to Samaria. 24
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 6:33
Context6:33 He was still talking to them when 25 the messenger approached 26 and said, “Look, the Lord is responsible for this disaster! 27 Why should I continue to wait for the Lord to help?”
2 Kings 8:8
Context8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift 28 and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, 29 ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
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 30 you as king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and run away quickly!” 31
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 9:7
Context9:7 You will destroy the family of your master Ahab. 35 I will get revenge against Jezebel for the shed blood of my servants the prophets and for the shed blood of all the Lord’s servants. 36
2 Kings 9:17
Context9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu’s troops approaching. 37 He said, “I see troops!” 38 Jehoram ordered, 39 “Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, ‘Is everything all right?’” 40
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 16:7
Context16:7 Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your dependent. 41 March up and rescue me from the power 42 of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked 43 me.”
2 Kings 18:25
Context18:25 Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March 44 up against this land and destroy it.’”’” 45
2 Kings 20:8
Context20:8 Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What is the confirming sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the Lord’s temple the day after tomorrow?”
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. 46
2 Kings 22:8
Context22:8 Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it.
2 Kings 22:16
Context22:16 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which the king of Judah has read. 47
2 Kings 23:17
Context23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet 48 who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
1 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
2 tn Heb “and he sent messengers and said to them.”
3 tn That is, “seek an oracle from.”
4 sn Apparently Baal Zebub refers to a local manifestation of the god Baal at the Philistine city of Ekron. The name appears to mean “Lord of the Flies,” but it may be a deliberate scribal corruption of Baal Zebul, “Baal, the Prince,” a title known from the Ugaritic texts. For further discussion and bibliography, see HALOT 261 s.v. זְבוּב בַּעַל and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 25.
5 tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”
6 tn Wordplay contributes to the irony here. The king tells Elijah to “come down” (Hebrew יָרַד, yarad), but Elijah calls fire down (יָרַד) on the arrogant king’s officer.
7 tc Two medieval Hebrew
8 tn Or “intense fire.” The divine name may be used idiomatically to emphasize the intensity of the fire. Whether one translates אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) here as a proper name or idiomatically, this addition to the narrative (the name is omitted in the first panel, v. 10b) emphasizes the severity of the judgment and is appropriate given the more intense command delivered by the king to the prophet in this panel.
9 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
10 tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”
11 tn Heb “from your head.” The same expression occurs in v. 5.
12 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
13 tn Or “healed.”
14 tn Heb “there will no longer be from there death and miscarriage [or, ‘barrenness’].”
15 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.
16 tn Heb “How can I set this before a hundred men?”
17 tn The verb forms are infinitives absolute (Heb “eating and leaving over”) and have to be translated in light of the context.
18 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
19 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).
20 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).
21 tn Heb “and now when this letter comes to you, look, I have sent to you Naaman my servant.”
22 tn Heb “said” (i.e., to himself).
23 tn Heb “Look, my master spared this Syrian Naaman by not taking from his hand what he brought.”
24 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
25 tn The Hebrew text also has “look” here.
26 tn Heb “came down to him.”
27 tn Heb “Look, this is a disaster from the
28 tn The Hebrew text also has “in your hand.”
29 tn Heb “Inquire of the
30 tn Heb “anointed.”
31 tn Heb “and open the door and run away and do not delay.”
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 Or “strike down the house of Ahab your master.”
36 tn Heb “I will avenge the shed blood of my servants the prophets and the shed blood of all the servants of the
37 tn Heb “the quantity [of the men] of Jehu, when he approached.” Elsewhere שִׁפְעַה (shif’ah), “quantity,” is used of a quantity of camels (Isa 60:6) or horses (Ezek 26:10) and of an abundance of water (Job 22:11; 38:34).
38 tn The term שִׁפְעַת (shifat) appears to be a construct form of the noun, but no genitive follows.
39 tn Heb “said.”
40 tn Heb “Get a rider and send [him] to meet him and let him ask, ‘Is there peace?’”
41 tn Heb “son.” Both terms (“servant” and “son”) reflect Ahaz’s subordinate position as Tiglath-pileser’s subject.
42 tn Heb “hand, palm.”
43 tn Heb “who have arisen against.”
44 tn Heb “Go.”
45 sn In v. 25 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 22. He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commissioned Assyria as his instrument of discipline and judgment.
46 tn Heb “so that everyone who hears it, his two ears will quiver.”
47 tn Heb “all the words of the scroll which the king of Judah has read.”
48 tn Heb “man of God.”
