Discovery Box2 Kings 1:4 
Context1:4 Therefore this is what the Lord says, “You will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die!”’” So Elijah went on his way.
2 Kings 1:14
Context1:14 Indeed, 1 fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. 2 So now, please have respect for my life.”
2 Kings 3:10
Context3:10 The king of Israel said, “Oh no! 3 Certainly the Lord has summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to the king of Moab!”
2 Kings 3:12
Context3:12 Jehoshaphat said, “The Lord speaks through him.” 4 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to visit him.
2 Kings 3:21
Context3:21 Now all Moab had heard that the kings were attacking, 5 so everyone old enough to fight was mustered and placed at the border. 6
2 Kings 4:5
Context4:5 So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.
2 Kings 4:14
Context4:14 So he asked Gehazi, 7 “What can I do for her?” Gehazi replied, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”
2 Kings 4:20
Context4:20 So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap 8 until noon and then died.
2 Kings 4:22
Context4:22 She called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”
2 Kings 5:21
Context5:21 So Gehazi ran after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from his chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right?” 9
2 Kings 6:10-11
Context6:10 So the king of Israel sent a message to the place the prophet had pointed out, warning it 10 to be on its guard. This happened on several occasions. 11 6:11 This made the king of Syria upset. 12 So he summoned his advisers 13 and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.” 14
2 Kings 6:13-14
Context6:13 The king 15 ordered, “Go, find out where he is, so I can send some men to capture him.” 16 The king was told, “He is in Dothan.” 6:14 So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army. 17 They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.
2 Kings 7:5
Context7:5 So they started toward 18 the Syrian camp at dusk. When they reached the edge of the Syrian camp, there was no one there.
2 Kings 7:7
Context7:7 So they got up and fled at dusk, leaving behind their tents, horses, and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.
2 Kings 7:14
Context7:14 So they picked two horsemen and the king sent them out to track the Syrian army. 19 He ordered them, “Go and find out what’s going on.” 20
2 Kings 8:2
Context8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said. 21 She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
2 Kings 8:22
Context8:22 So Edom has remained free from Judah’s control to this very day. 22 At that same time Libnah also rebelled.
2 Kings 10:2
Context10:2 “You have with you the sons of your master, chariots and horses, a fortified city, and weapons. So when this letter arrives, 23
2 Kings 10:16
Context10:16 Jehu 24 said, “Come with me and see how zealous I am for the Lord’s cause.” 25 So he 26 took him along in his chariot.
2 Kings 10:22
Context10:22 Jehu ordered the one who was in charge of the wardrobe, 27 “Bring out robes for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out robes for them.
2 Kings 13:16
Context13:16 Then Elisha 28 told the king of Israel, “Aim the bow.” 29 He did so, 30 and Elisha placed his hands on the king’s hands.
2 Kings 13:18
Context13:18 Then Elisha 31 said, “Take the arrows,” and he did so. 32 He told the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” He struck the ground three times and stopped.
2 Kings 14:11
Context14:11 But Amaziah would not heed the warning, 33 so King Jehoash of Israel attacked. 34 He and King Amaziah of Judah met face to face 35 in Beth Shemesh of Judah.
2 Kings 14:19
Context14:19 Conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, 36 so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him 37 and they killed him there.
2 Kings 14:27
Context14:27 The Lord had not decreed that he would blot out Israel’s memory 38 from under heaven, 39 so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.
2 Kings 17:20
Context17:20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated 40 them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.
2 Kings 17:25
Context17:25 When they first moved in, 41 they did not worship 42 the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.
2 Kings 17:28
Context17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. 43 He taught them how to worship 44 the Lord.
2 Kings 18:35
Context18:35 Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’” 45
2 Kings 19:19
Context19:19 Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, Lord, are the only God.”
2 Kings 19:22
Context19:22 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at?
At whom have you shouted, 46
and looked so arrogantly? 47
At the Holy One of Israel! 48
2 Kings 20:7
Context20:7 Isaiah ordered, “Get a fig cake.” So they did as he ordered 49 and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered. 50
2 Kings 21:9
Context21:9 But they did not obey, 51 and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.
2 Kings 23:10
Context23:10 The king 52 ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech. 53
2 Kings 25:3
Context25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month 54 the famine in the city was so severe the residents 55 had no food.
2 Kings 25:21
Context25:21 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed 56 at Riblah in the territory 57 of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.
1 tn Heb “look.”
2 tn Heb “their fifty.”
3 tn Or “ah.”
4 tn Heb “the word of the
5 tn Heb “had come up to fight them.”
6 tn Heb “and they mustered all who tied on a belt and upwards, and they stood at the border.”
7 tn Heb “and he said.”
8 tn Heb “knees.”
9 tn Heb “Is there peace?”
10 tn The vav + perfect here indicates action contemporary with the preceding main verb (“sent”). See IBHS 533-34 §32.2.3e.
11 tn Heb “and the king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God spoke to him, and he warned it and he guarded himself there, not once and not twice.”
12 tn Heb “and the heart of the king of Syria was stirred up over this thing.”
13 tn Heb “servants.”
14 tn Heb “Will you not tell me who among us [is] for the king of Israel?” The sarcastic rhetorical question expresses the king’s suspicion.
15 tn Heb “he” (also a second time in this verse); the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
16 tn Heb “Go and see where he [is] so I can send and take him.”
17 tn Heb “heavy force.”
18 tn Heb “they arose to go to.”
19 tn Heb “and the king sent [them] after the Syrian camp.”
20 tn Heb “Go and see.”
21 tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”
22 tn Heb “and Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah until this day.”
23 tn Heb “And now when this letter comes to you – with you are the sons of your master and with you are chariots and horses and a fortified city and weapons.”
24 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
25 tn Heb “and see my zeal for the
26 tc The MT has a plural form, but this is most likely an error. The LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate all have the singular.
27 tn Heb “and he said to the one who was over the wardrobe.”
28 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
29 tn Heb “Cause your hand to ride on the bow.”
30 tn Heb “and he caused his hand to ride.”
31 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
32 tn Heb “and he took [them].”
33 tn Heb “did not listen.”
34 tn Heb “went up.”
35 tn Heb “looked at each other [in the] face.”
36 tn Heb “and they conspired against him [with] a conspiracy in Jerusalem.”
37 tn Heb “and they sent after him to Lachish.”
38 tn Heb “name.”
39 tn The phrase “from under heaven” adds emphasis to the verb “blot out” and suggest total annihilation. For other examples of the verb מָחָה (makhah), “blot out,” combined with “from under heaven,” see Exod 17:14; Deut 9:14; 25:19; 29:20.
40 tn Or “afflicted.”
41 tn Heb “in the beginning of their living there.”
42 tn Heb “fear.”
43 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
44 tn Heb “fear.”
45 tn Heb “that the
46 tn Heb “have you raised a voice.”
47 tn Heb “and lifted your eyes on high?”
48 sn This divine title pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.
49 tn Heb “and they got [a fig cake].”
50 tn Heb “and he lived.”
51 tn Heb “listen.”
52 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
53 sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.
54 tn The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.
sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586
55 tn Heb “the people of the land.”
56 tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”
57 tn Heb “land.”
