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 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 3:26
Context3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, 7 he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack 8 the king of Edom, but they failed.
2 Kings 4:10
Context4:10 Let’s make a small private upper room 9 and furnish it with 10 a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”
2 Kings 4:12
Context4:12 He told his servant Gehazi, “Ask the Shunammite woman to come here.” 11 So he did so and she came to him. 12
2 Kings 4:20
Context4:20 So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap 13 until noon and then died.
2 Kings 4:36
Context4:36 Elisha 14 called to Gehazi and said, “Get the Shunammite woman.” So he did so 15 and she came to him. He said to her, “Take your son.”
2 Kings 5:16
Context5:16 But Elisha 16 replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives (whom I serve), 17 I will take nothing from you.” Naaman 18 insisted that he take it, but he refused.
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 6:13
Context6:13 The king 19 ordered, “Go, find out where he is, so I can send some men to capture him.” 20 The king was told, “He is in Dothan.”
2 Kings 8:14
Context8:14 He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad 21 asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?” Hazael 22 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 23 his servant David to whom he had promised a perpetual dynasty. 24
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; 25 he drives recklessly.”
2 Kings 14:7
Context14:7 He defeated 26 10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.
2 Kings 14:24
Context14:24 He did evil in the sight of 27 the Lord; he did not repudiate 28 the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.
2 Kings 14:27
Context14:27 The Lord had not decreed that he would blot out Israel’s memory 29 from under heaven, 30 so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.
2 Kings 15:24
Context15:24 He did evil in the sight of 31 the Lord; he did not repudiate 32 the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.
2 Kings 15:28
Context15:28 He did evil in the sight of 33 the Lord; he did not repudiate 34 the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.
2 Kings 16:9
Context16:9 The king of Assyria responded favorably to his request; 35 he 36 attacked Damascus and captured it. He deported the people 37 to Kir and executed Rezin.
2 Kings 16:13
Context16:13 He offered his burnt sacrifice and his grain offering. He poured out his libation and sprinkled the blood from his peace offerings on the altar.
2 Kings 17:20
Context17:20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated 38 them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.
2 Kings 18:6-7
Context18:6 He was loyal to 39 the Lord and did not abandon him. 40 He obeyed the commandments which the Lord had given to 41 Moses. 18:7 The Lord was with him; he succeeded in all his endeavors. 42 He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to submit to him. 43
2 Kings 20:7
Context20:7 Isaiah ordered, “Get a fig cake.” So they did as he ordered 44 and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered. 45
2 Kings 21:1
Context21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 46 His mother 47 was Hephzibah.
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. 48 His mother 49 was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath. 22:2 He did what the Lord approved 50 and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; 51 he did not deviate to the right or the left.
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 23:31
Context23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 52 His mother 53 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. 54
2 Kings 24:8
Context24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 55 His mother 56 was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.
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 “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 Heb “and the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him.”
8 tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”
9 tn Heb “a small upper room of a wall”; according to HALOT 832 s.v. עֲלִיָּה, this refers to “a fully walled upper room.”
10 tn Heb “and let’s put there for him.”
11 tn Heb “Call for this Shunammite woman.”
12 tn Heb “and he called for her and she stood before him.”
13 tn Heb “knees.”
14 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
15 tn Heb “and he called for her.”
16 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
17 tn Heb “before whom I stand.”
18 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
19 tn Heb “he” (also a second time in this verse); the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
20 tn Heb “Go and see where he [is] so I can send and take him.”
21 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hazael) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
23 tn The Hebrew has only one sentence, “and the
24 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.
25 tn Heb “and the driving is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi.”
26 tn Or “struck down.”
27 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
28 tn Heb “turn away from all.”
29 tn Heb “name.”
30 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.
31 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
32 tn Heb “turn away from.”
33 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
34 tn Heb “turn away from.”
35 tn Heb “listened to him.”
36 tn Heb “the king of Assyria.”
37 tn Heb “it.”
38 tn Or “afflicted.”
39 tn Heb “he hugged.”
40 tn Heb “and did not turn aside from after him.”
41 tn Heb “had commanded.”
42 tn Heb “in all which he went out [to do], he was successful.”
43 tn Heb “and did not serve him.”
44 tn Heb “and they got [a fig cake].”
45 tn Heb “and he lived.”
46 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
47 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
48 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
49 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
50 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
51 tn Heb “and walked in all the way of David his father.”
52 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
53 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
54 tn Heb “and he took Jehoahaz, and he came to Egypt and he died there.”
55 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
56 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
