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 1:8
Context1:8 They replied, 1 “He was a hairy man 2 and had a leather belt 3 tied around his waist.” The king 4 said, “He is Elijah the Tishbite.”
2 Kings 1:18
Context1:18 The rest of the events of Ahaziah’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 5
2 Kings 2:8
Context2:8 Elijah took his cloak, folded it up, and hit the water with it. The water divided, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
2 Kings 4:12
Context4:12 He told his servant Gehazi, “Ask the Shunammite woman to come here.” 6 So he did so and she came to him. 7
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 5:3
Context5:3 She told her mistress, “If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria! 9 Then he would cure him of his skin disease.”
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?” 10
2 Kings 5:25
Context5:25 When he came and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” He answered, “Your servant hasn’t been anywhere.”
2 Kings 6:8
Context6:8 Now the king of Syria was at war with Israel. He consulted his advisers, who said, “Invade 11 at such and such 12 a place.”
2 Kings 6:11
Context6:11 This made the king of Syria upset. 13 So he summoned his advisers 14 and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.” 15
2 Kings 6:31
Context6:31 Then he said, “May God judge me severely 16 if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!” 17
2 Kings 8:14
Context8:14 He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad 18 asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?” Hazael 19 replied, “He told me you would surely recover.”
2 Kings 8:19
Context8:19 But the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah. He preserved Judah for the sake of 20 his servant David to whom he had promised a perpetual dynasty. 21
2 Kings 9:16
Context9:16 Jehu drove his chariot 22 to Jezreel, for Joram was recuperating 23 there. (Now King Ahaziah of Judah had come down to visit 24 Joram.)
2 Kings 10:3
Context10:3 pick the best and most capable 25 of your master’s sons, place him on his father’s throne, and defend 26 your master’s dynasty.”
2 Kings 10:11
Context10:11 Then Jehu killed all who were left of Ahab’s family in Jezreel, and all his nobles, close friends, and priests. He left no survivors.
2 Kings 10:16
Context10:16 Jehu 27 said, “Come with me and see how zealous I am for the Lord’s cause.” 28 So he 29 took him along in his chariot.
2 Kings 11:3
Context11:3 He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple 30 for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
2 Kings 12:1
Context12:1 (12:2) In Jehu’s seventh year Jehoash became king; he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. 31 His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.
2 Kings 12:19
Context12:19 The rest of the events of Joash’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 32
2 Kings 13:16
Context13:16 Then Elisha 33 told the king of Israel, “Aim the bow.” 34 He did so, 35 and Elisha placed his hands on the king’s hands.
2 Kings 14:21
Context14:21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.
2 Kings 15:6
Context15:6 The rest of the events of Azariah’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 36
2 Kings 15:12
Context15:12 His assassination brought to fulfillment the Lord’s word to Jehu, 37 “Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” 38 That is exactly what happened. 39
2 Kings 15:14
Context15:14 Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to 40 Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh. 41 He killed him and took his place as king.
2 Kings 15:21
Context15:21 The rest of the events of Menahem’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 42
2 Kings 15:26
Context15:26 The rest of the events of Pekahiah’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 43
2 Kings 15:31
Context15:31 The rest of the events of Pekah’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 44
2 Kings 15:33
Context15:33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. 45 His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
2 Kings 15:36
Context15:36 The rest of the events of Jotham’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 46
2 Kings 16:9
Context16:9 The king of Assyria responded favorably to his request; 47 he 48 attacked Damascus and captured it. He deported the people 49 to Kir and executed Rezin.
2 Kings 16:19
Context16:19 The rest of the events of Ahaz’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 50
2 Kings 17:20
Context17:20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated 51 them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.
2 Kings 18:7
Context18:7 The Lord was with him; he succeeded in all his endeavors. 52 He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to submit to him. 53
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 19:31
Context19:31 For a remnant will leave Jerusalem;
survivors will come out of Mount Zion.
The intense devotion of the sovereign Lord 54 to his people 55 will accomplish this.
2 Kings 21:1
Context21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 56 His mother 57 was Hephzibah.
2 Kings 21:11
Context21:11 “King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. 58 He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols. 59
2 Kings 22:1-2
Context22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. 60 His mother 61 was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath. 22:2 He did what the Lord approved 62 and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; 63 he did not deviate to the right or the left.
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. 64
2 Kings 23:28
Context23:28 The rest of the events of Josiah’s reign and all his accomplishments are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 65
2 Kings 23:31
Context23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 66 His mother 67 was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.
2 Kings 23:34
Context23:34 Pharaoh Necho made Josiah’s son Eliakim king in Josiah’s place, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. He took Jehoahaz to Egypt, where he died. 68
2 Kings 24:1
Context24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, 69 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. 70 Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. 71
2 Kings 24:5
Context24:5 The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign and all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 72
2 Kings 24:8
Context24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 73 His mother 74 was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 24:15
Context24:15 He deported Jehoiachin from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with the king’s mother and wives, his eunuchs, and the high-ranking officials of the land. 75
2 Kings 25:5
Context25:5 But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with him in the plains of Jericho, 76 and his entire army deserted him.
1 tn Heb “said to him.”
2 tn Heb “an owner of hair.” This idiomatic expression indicates that Elijah was very hairy. For other examples where the idiom “owner of” is used to describe a characteristic of someone, see HALOT 143 s.v. בַּעַל. For example, an “owner of dreams” is one who frequently has dreams (Gen 37:19) and an “owner of anger” is a hot-tempered individual (Prov 22:24).
3 tn Heb “belt of skin” (i.e., one made from animal hide).
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “As for the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not recorded in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”
6 tn Heb “Call for this Shunammite woman.”
7 tn Heb “and he called for her and she stood before him.”
8 tn Heb “knees.”
9 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
10 tn Heb “Is there peace?”
11 tc The verb form used here is difficult to analyze. On the basis of the form נְחִתִּים (nÿkhitim) in v. 9 from the root נָחַת (nakhat), it is probably best to emend the verb to תִּנְחְתוּ (tinkhÿtu; a Qal imperfect form from the same root). The verb נָחַת in at least two other instances carries the nuance “go down, descend” in a military context. For a defense of this view, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 72.
12 sn The advisers would have mentioned a specific location, but the details are not significant to the narrator’s purpose, so he simply paraphrases here.
13 tn Heb “and the heart of the king of Syria was stirred up over this thing.”
14 tn Heb “servants.”
15 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.
16 tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”
17 tn Heb “if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat stays on him today.”
18 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
19 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hazael) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
20 tn The Hebrew has only one sentence, “and the
21 tn Heb “just as he had promised to give him and his sons a lamp all the days.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty; this is reflected in the translation.
22 tn Heb “rode [or, ‘mounted’] and went.”
23 tn Heb “lying down.”
24 tn Heb “to see.”
25 tn Hebrew יָשָׁר (yashar) does not have its normal moral/ethical nuance here (“upright”), but a more neutral sense of “proper, right, suitable.” For the gloss “capable,” see HALOT 450 s.v. יָשָׁר.
26 tn Or “fight for.”
27 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
28 tn Heb “and see my zeal for the
29 tc The MT has a plural form, but this is most likely an error. The LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate all have the singular.
30 tn Heb “and he was with her [in] the house of the
31 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
32 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Joash, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
33 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
34 tn Heb “Cause your hand to ride on the bow.”
35 tn Heb “and he caused his hand to ride.”
36 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Azariah, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
37 tn Heb “It was the word of the
38 tn “sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.”
sn See the note at 2 Kgs 10:30.
39 tn Heb “and it was so.”
40 tn Heb “and came to.”
41 tn Heb “went up from Tirzah and arrived in Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria.”
42 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Menahem, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”
43 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Pekahiah, and all which he did, look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.”
44 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Pekah, and all which he did, look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.”
45 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
46 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jotham, and that which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
47 tn Heb “listened to him.”
48 tn Heb “the king of Assyria.”
49 tn Heb “it.”
50 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Ahaz, and that which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
51 tn Or “afflicted.”
52 tn Heb “in all which he went out [to do], he was successful.”
53 tn Heb “and did not serve him.”
54 tn Traditionally “the
55 tn Heb “the zeal of the
56 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
57 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
58 tn Heb “these horrible sins.”
59 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
60 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
61 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
62 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
63 tn Heb “and walked in all the way of David his father.”
64 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.
65 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Josiah, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
66 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
67 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
68 tn Heb “and he took Jehoahaz, and he came to Egypt and he died there.”
69 tn Heb “In his days.”
70 tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.
71 tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”
72 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
73 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
74 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
75 tn Heb “and he deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; the mother of the king and the wives of the king and his eunuchs and the mighty of the land he led into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.”
76 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
