Discovery Box2 Kings 1:9 
Context1:9 The king 1 sent a captain and his fifty soldiers 2 to retrieve Elijah. 3 The captain 4 went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. 5 He told him, “Prophet, 6 the king says, ‘Come down!’”
2 Kings 1:11
Context1:11 The king 7 sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, 8 “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’” 9
2 Kings 2:2
Context2:2 Elijah told Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel.” 10 But Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
2 Kings 2:24
Context2:24 When he turned around and saw them, he called God’s judgment down on them. 11 Two female bears came out of the woods and ripped forty-two of the boys to pieces.
2 Kings 3:19
Context3:19 You will defeat every fortified city and every important 12 city. You must chop down 13 every productive 14 tree, stop up all the springs, and cover all the cultivated land with stones.” 15
2 Kings 4:35
Context4:35 Elisha 16 went back and walked around in the house. 17 Then he got up on the bed again 18 and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
2 Kings 5:14
Context5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. 19 His skin became as smooth as a young child’s 20 and he was healed.
2 Kings 10:9
Context10:9 In the morning he went out and stood there. Then he said to all the people, “You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all of these men?
2 Kings 13:14
Context13:14 Now Elisha had a terminal illness. 21 King Joash of Israel went down to visit him. 22 He wept before him and said, “My father, my father! The chariot 23 and horsemen of Israel!” 24
2 Kings 14:10
Context14:10 You thoroughly defeated Edom 25 and it has gone to your head! 26 Gloat over your success, 27 but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” 28
2 Kings 15:16
Context15:16 At that time Menahem came from Tirzah and attacked Tiphsah. He struck down all who lived in the city and the surrounding territory, because they would not surrender. 29 He even ripped open the pregnant women.
2 Kings 16:17
Context16:17 King Ahaz took off the frames of the movable stands, and removed the basins from them. He took “The Sea” 30 down from the bronze bulls that supported it 31 and put it on the pavement.
2 Kings 17:16
Context17:16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, 32 and worshiped 33 Baal.
2 Kings 17:35-36
Context17:35 The Lord made an agreement 34 with them 35 and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them. 17:36 Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; 36 bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.
2 Kings 19:7
Context19:7 Look, I will take control of his mind; 37 he will receive 38 a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down 39 with a sword in his own land.”’”
2 Kings 19:37
Context19:37 One day, 40 as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, 41 his sons 42 Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. 43 They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.
2 Kings 22:4
Context22:4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down 44 the silver that has been brought by the people to the Lord’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.
2 Kings 22:9
Context22:9 Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, 45 “Your servants melted down the silver in the temple 46 and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple.”
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “officer of fifty and his fifty.”
3 tn Heb “to him.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the captain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.
6 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 10, 11, 12, 13).
7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tc The MT reads, “he answered and said to him.” The verb “he answered” (וַיַּעַן, vayya’an) is probably a corruption of “he went up” (וַיַּעַל, vayya’al). See v. 9.
9 sn In this second panel of the three-paneled narrative, the king and his captain are more arrogant than before. The captain uses a more official sounding introduction (“this is what the king says”) and the king adds “at once” to the command.
10 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
11 tn Heb “he cursed them in the name of the
12 tn Heb “choice” or “select.”
13 tn Elisha places the object first and uses an imperfect verb form. The stylistic shift may signal that he is now instructing them what to do, rather than merely predicting what would happen.
14 tn Heb “good.”
15 tn Heb “and ruin every good portion with stones.”
16 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
17 tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”
18 tn Heb “and he went up.”
19 tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”
20 tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”
21 tn Heb “Now Elisha was ill with the illness by which he would die.”
22 tn Heb “went down to him.”
23 tn Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”
24 sn By comparing Elisha to a one-man army, the king emphasizes the power of the prophetic word. See the note at 2:12.
25 tn Or “you have indeed defeated Edom.”
26 tn Heb “and your heart has lifted you up.”
27 tn Heb “be glorified.”
28 tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”
29 tn Heb “then Menahem attacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its borders from Tirzah, for it would not open, and he attacked.”
tn Instead of “Tiphsah,” the LXX has “Tirzah,” while Lucian’s Greek version reads “Tappuah.” For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 171.
30 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.
31 tn Heb “that [were] under it.”
32 tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.
33 tn Or “served.”
34 tn Or “covenant.”
35 sn That is, the descendants of Jacob/Israel (see v. 35b).
36 tn Heb “and outstretched arm.”
37 tn Heb “I will put in him a spirit.” The precise sense of רוּחַ (ruakh), “spirit,” is uncertain in this context. It may refer to a spiritual being who will take control of his mind (see 1 Kgs 22:19), or it could refer to a disposition of concern and fear. In either case the
38 tn Heb “hear.”
39 tn Heb “cause him to fall,” that is, “kill him.”
40 sn The assassination probably took place in 681
41 sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.
42 tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew
43 sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.
44 tc The MT has וְיַתֵּם (vÿyattem), “and let them add up” (Hiphil of תָּמָם [tammam], “be complete”), but the appearance of הִתִּיכוּ (hitikhu), “they melted down” (Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh], “pour out”) in v. 9 suggests that the verb form should be emended to וְיַתֵּךְ (vÿyattekh), “and let him melt down” (a Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh]). For a discussion of this and other options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 281.
45 tn Heb “returned the king a word and said.”
46 tn Heb “that was found in the house.”
