Discovery Box2 Kings 1:7 
Context1:7 The king 1 asked them, “Describe the appearance 2 of this man who came up to meet you and told you these things.”
2 Kings 2:7-8
Context2:7 The fifty members of the prophetic guild went and stood opposite them at a distance, while Elijah and Elisha 3 stood by the Jordan. 2:8 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 2:18
Context2:18 When they came back, Elisha 4 was staying in Jericho. He said to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go’?”
2 Kings 3:3
Context3:3 Yet he persisted in 5 the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin; he did not turn from them. 6
2 Kings 3:10
Context3:10 The king of Israel said, “Oh no! 7 Certainly the Lord has summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to the king of Moab!”
2 Kings 3:24
Context3:24 When they approached the Israelite camp, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who then ran from them. The Israelites 8 thoroughly defeated 9 Moab.
2 Kings 6:5
Context6:5 As one of them was felling a log, the ax head 10 dropped into the water. He shouted, “Oh no, 11 my master! It was borrowed!”
2 Kings 6:11
Context6:11 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 6:18
Context6:18 As they approached him, 15 Elisha prayed to the Lord, “Strike these people 16 with blindness.” 17 The Lord 18 struck them with blindness as Elisha requested. 19
2 Kings 9:20
Context9:20 The watchman reported, “He reached them, but hasn’t started back. The one who drives the lead chariot drives like Jehu son of Nimshi; 20 he drives recklessly.”
2 Kings 10:18
Context10:18 Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab worshiped 21 Baal a little; Jehu will worship 22 him with great devotion. 23
2 Kings 10:22
Context10:22 Jehu ordered the one who was in charge of the wardrobe, 24 “Bring out robes for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out robes for them.
2 Kings 11:5
Context11:5 He ordered them, “This is what you must do. One third of the unit that is on duty during the Sabbath will guard the royal palace.
2 Kings 13:3
Context13:3 The Lord was furious with 25 Israel and handed them over to 26 King Hazael of Syria and to Hazael’s son Ben Hadad for many years. 27
2 Kings 14:27
Context14:27 The Lord had not decreed that he would blot out Israel’s memory 28 from under heaven, 29 so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.
2 Kings 17:11
Context17:11 They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry. 30
2 Kings 17:28
Context17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. 31 He taught them how to worship 32 the Lord.
2 Kings 18:13
Context18:13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
2 Kings 18:19
Context18:19 The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence? 33
2 Kings 18:23
Context18:23 Now make a deal 34 with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.
2 Kings 19:9
Context19:9 The king 35 heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. 36 He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:
2 Kings 20:15
Context20:15 Isaiah 37 asked, “What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything 38 in my treasuries.”
2 Kings 21:9
Context21:9 But they did not obey, 39 and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.
2 Kings 21:14
Context21:14 I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people 40 and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies, 41
2 Kings 22:5
Context22:5 Have them hand it over to the construction foremen 42 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it, 43
2 Kings 22:15
Context22:15 and she said to them: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Say this to the man who sent you to me:
2 Kings 23:20
Context23:20 He sacrificed all the priests of the high places on the altars located there, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
2 Kings 25:21
Context25:21 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed 44 at Riblah in the territory 45 of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “What was the manner…?”
3 tn Heb “the two of them.” The referents (Elijah and Elisha) have been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “held tight,” or “clung to.”
6 tc The Hebrew text has the singular, “it.” Some ancient witnesses read the plural, which seems preferable since the antecedent (“sins”) is plural. Another option is to emend the plural “sins” to a singular. One ancient Greek witness has the singular “sin.”
7 tn Or “ah.”
8 tn Heb “they.”
9 tc The consonantal text (Kethib) suggests, “and they went, striking down,” but the marginal reading (Qere) is “they struck down, striking down.” For a discussion of the textual problem, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 46.
10 tn Heb “iron.”
11 tn Or “ah.”
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 “and they came down to him.”
16 tn Or “this nation,” perhaps emphasizing the strength of the Syrian army.
17 tn On the basis of the Akkadian etymology of the word, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 74) translate “blinding light.” HALOT 761 s.v. סַנְוֵרִים suggests the glosses “dazzling, deception.”
18 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
19 tn Heb “according to the word of Elisha.”
20 tn Heb “and the driving is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi.”
21 tn Or “served.
22 tn Or “serve.”
23 tn Heb “much” or “greatly.”
24 tn Heb “and he said to the one who was over the wardrobe.”
25 tn Heb “and the anger of the
26 tn Heb “he gave them into the hand of.”
27 tn Heb “all the days.”
28 tn Heb “name.”
29 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.
30 tn Heb “and they did evil things, angering the
31 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
32 tn Heb “fear.”
33 tn Heb “What is this object of trust in which you are trusting?”
34 tn Heb “exchange pledges.”
35 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
36 tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘Look, he has come out to fight with you.’”
37 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Isaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
38 tn Heb “there was nothing I did not show them.”
39 tn Heb “listen.”
40 tn Heb “the remnant of my inheritance.” In this context the Lord’s remnant is the tribe of Judah, which had been preserved when the Assyrians conquered and deported the northern tribes. See 17:18 and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 269.
41 tn Heb “they will become plunder and spoils of war for all their enemies.”
42 tn Heb “doers of the work.”
43 tn Heb “and let them give it to the doers of the work who are in the house of the
44 tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”
45 tn Heb “land.”
