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 4:8
Context4:8 One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent 5 woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. 6 So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal. 7
2 Kings 5:1
Context5:1 Now Naaman, the commander of the king of Syria’s army, was esteemed and respected by his master, 8 for through him the Lord had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease. 9
2 Kings 9:24
Context9:24 Jehu aimed his bow and shot an arrow right between Jehoram’s shoulders. 10 The arrow went through 11 his heart and he fell to his knees in his chariot.
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, 12 ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.
2 Kings 10:10
Context10:10 Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the Lord announced against Ahab’s dynasty has failed to materialize. The Lord had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.” 13
2 Kings 10:33
Context10:33 He conquered all the land of Gilead, including the territory of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh, extending all the way from the Aroer in the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan. 14
2 Kings 16:3
Context16:3 He followed in the footsteps of 15 the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, 16 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 17 whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.
2 Kings 17:17
Context17:17 They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, 18 and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry. 19
2 Kings 17:23
Context17:23 Finally 20 the Lord rejected Israel 21 just as he had warned he would do 22 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.
2 Kings 19:3
Context19:3 “This is what Hezekiah says: 23 ‘This is a day of distress, insults, 24 and humiliation, 25 as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. 26
2 Kings 24:2
Context24:2 The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets. 27
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 “great,” perhaps “wealthy.”
6 tn Or “she urged him to eat some food.”
7 tn Or “he would turn aside there to eat some food.”
8 tn Heb “was a great man before his master and lifted up with respect to the face.”
9 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.
10 tn Heb “and Jehu filled his hand with the bow and he struck Jehoram between his shoulders.”
11 tn Heb “went out from.”
12 tn Heb “It is the word of the
13 tn Heb “Know then that there has not fallen from the word of the
14 tn Heb “all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassehites, from Aroer which is near the Arnon Valley, and Gilead, and Bashan.”
15 tn Heb “he walked in the way of.”
16 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.
17 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
18 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.
19 tn Heb “they sold themselves to doing what was evil in the eyes of the
20 tn Heb “until.”
21 tn Heb “the
22 tn Heb “just as he said.”
23 tn In the Hebrew text this verse begins with “they said to him.”
24 tn Or “rebuke,” “correction.”
25 tn Or “contempt.”
26 tn Heb “when sons come to the cervical opening and there is no strength to give birth.”
27 tn Heb “he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the
