Discovery Box2 Kings 1:5 
Context1:5 When the messengers returned to the king, 1 he asked them, “Why have you returned?”
2 Kings 6:4
Context6:4 So he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they started cutting down trees.
2 Kings 6:16
Context6:16 He replied, “Don’t be afraid, for our side outnumbers them.” 2
2 Kings 6:22
Context6:22 He replied, “Do not strike them down! You did not capture them with your sword or bow, so what gives you the right to strike them down? 3 Give them some food and water, so they can eat and drink and then go back to their master.”
2 Kings 11:4
Context11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned 4 the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians 5 and the royal bodyguard. 6 He met with them 7 in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement 8 with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.
1 tn Heb “to him.”
sn The narrative is elliptical and telescoped here. The account of Elijah encountering the messengers and delivering the Lord’s message is omitted; we only here of it as the messengers report what happened to the king.
2 tn Heb “for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
3 tn Heb “Are [they] ones you captured with your sword or your bow (that) you can strike (them) down?”
4 tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”
5 sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.
6 tn Heb “the runners.”
7 tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”
8 tn Or “covenant.”
