Discovery Box2 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 2:18
Context2:18 When they came back, Elisha 5 was staying in Jericho. He said to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go’?”
2 Kings 3:23-24
Context3:23 The Moabites 6 said, “It’s blood! The kings are totally destroyed! 7 They have struck one another down! Now, Moab, seize the plunder!” 3:24 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 3:26
Context3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, 10 he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack 11 the king of Edom, but they failed.
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 6:14
Context6:14 So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army. 12 They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.
2 Kings 6:18
Context6:18 As they approached him, 13 Elisha prayed to the Lord, “Strike these people 14 with blindness.” 15 The Lord 16 struck them with blindness as Elisha requested. 17
2 Kings 7:14
Context7:14 So they picked two horsemen and the king sent them out to track the Syrian army. 18 He ordered them, “Go and find out what’s going on.” 19
2 Kings 10:27
Context10:27 They demolished 20 the sacred pillar of Baal and 21 the temple of Baal; it is used as 22 a latrine 23 to this very day.
2 Kings 11:16-17
Context11:16 They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. 24 There she was executed.
11:17 Jehoiada then drew up a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, stipulating that they should be loyal to the Lord. 25
2 Kings 11:20
Context11:20 All the people of the land celebrated, for the city had rest now that they had killed Athaliah with the sword in the royal palace.
2 Kings 13:5
Context13:5 The Lord provided a deliverer 26 for Israel and they were freed from Syria’s power. 27 The Israelites once more lived in security. 28
2 Kings 16:5
Context16:5 At that time King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel attacked Jerusalem. 29 They besieged Ahaz, 30 but were unable to conquer him. 31
2 Kings 17:8-9
Context17:8 they observed the practices 32 of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel. 33 17:9 The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right. 34 They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress. 35
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. 36
2 Kings 17:14
Context17:14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, 37 who had not trusted the Lord their God.
2 Kings 17:28
Context17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. 38 He taught them how to worship 39 the Lord.
2 Kings 20:7
Context20:7 Isaiah ordered, “Get a fig cake.” So they did as he ordered 40 and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered. 41
2 Kings 21:14-15
Context21:14 I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people 42 and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies, 43 21:15 because they have done evil in my sight 44 and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”
2 Kings 21:24
Context21:24 The people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they 45 made his son Josiah king in his place.
2 Kings 22:5
Context22:5 Have them hand it over to the construction foremen 46 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it, 47
2 Kings 25:5-6
Context25:5 But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with him in the plains of Jericho, 48 and his entire army deserted him. 25:6 They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, 49 where he 50 passed sentence on 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 “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Moabites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn The translation assumes the verb is חָרַב (kharav, “to be desolate”). The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb form for emphasis. (For another example of the Hophal infinitive with a Niphal finite verb, see Lev 19:20. Cf. also IBHS 582 §35.2.1c.) Some prefer to derive the verb from a proposed homonym meaning “at HALOT 349 s.v. II חרב and BDB 352 s.v. חָרְבָה).
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 “and the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him.”
11 tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”
12 tn Heb “heavy force.”
13 tn Heb “and they came down to him.”
14 tn Or “this nation,” perhaps emphasizing the strength of the Syrian army.
15 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.”
16 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
17 tn Heb “according to the word of Elisha.”
18 tn Heb “and the king sent [them] after the Syrian camp.”
19 tn Heb “Go and see.”
20 tn Or “pulled down.”
21 tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.
22 tn Heb “and they made it into.”
23 tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has the hapax legomenon מַחֲרָאוֹת (makhara’ot), “places to defecate” or “dung houses” (note the related noun חרא (khr’)/חרי (khri), “dung,” HALOT 348-49 s.v. *חֲרָאִים). The marginal reading (Qere) glosses this, perhaps euphemistically, מוֹצָאוֹת (motsa’ot), “outhouses.”
24 tn Heb “and they placed hands on her, and she went the way of the entrance of the horses [into] the house of the king.”
25 tn Heb “and Jehoiada made a covenant between the
26 sn The identity of this unnamed “deliverer” is debated. For options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 143.
27 tn Heb “and they went from under the hand of Syria.”
28 tn Heb “and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as before.”
29 tn Heb “went up to Jerusalem for battle.”
30 tn That is, Jerusalem, Ahaz’s capital city.
31 tn Heb “they were unable to fight.” The object must be supplied from the preceding sentence. Elsewhere when the Niphal infinitive of לָחָם (lakham) follows the verb יָכֹל (yakhol), the infinitive appears to have the force of “prevail against.” See Num 22:11; 1 Sam 17:9; and the parallel passage in Isa 7:1.
32 tn Heb “walked in the customs.”
33 tn Heb “and [the practices of] the kings of Israel which they did.”
34 tn The meaning of the verb וַיְחַפְּאוּ (vayÿkhappÿ’u), translated here “said,” is uncertain. Some relate it to the verbal root חָפַה (khafah), “to cover,” and translate “they did it in secret” (see BDB 341 s.v. חָפָא). However, the pagan practices specified in the following sentences were hardly done in secret. Others propose a meaning “ascribe, impute,” which makes good contextual sense but has little etymological support (see HALOT 339 s.v. חפא). In this case Israel claimed that the
35 sn That is, from the city’s perimeter to the central citadel.
36 tn Heb “and they did evil things, angering the
37 tn Heb and they stiffened their neck like the neck of their fathers.”
38 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
39 tn Heb “fear.”
40 tn Heb “and they got [a fig cake].”
41 tn Heb “and he lived.”
42 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.
43 tn Heb “they will become plunder and spoils of war for all their enemies.”
44 tn Heb “in my eyes.”
45 tn Heb “the people of the land.” The pronoun “they” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid the repetition of the phrase “the people of the land” from the beginning of the verse.
46 tn Heb “doers of the work.”
47 tn Heb “and let them give it to the doers of the work who are in the house of the
48 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
49 sn Riblah was a strategic town on the Orontes River in Syria. It was at a crossing of the major roads between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Pharaoh Necho had earlier received Jehoahaz there and put him in chains (2 Kgs 23:33) prior to taking him captive to Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar had set up his base camp for conducting his campaigns against the Palestinian states there and was now sitting in judgment on prisoners brought to him.
50 tn The Hebrew text has the plural form of the verb, but the parallel passage in Jer 52:9 has the singular.
