Discovery Box2 Kings 2:1 
Context2:1 Just before 1 the Lord took Elijah up to heaven in a windstorm, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.
2 Kings 2:20
Context2:20 Elisha 2 said, “Get me a new jar and put some salt in it.” So they got it.
2 Kings 3:15-16
Context3:15 But now, get me a musician.” 3 When the musician played, the Lord energized him, 4 3:16 and he said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Make many cisterns in this valley,’ 5
2 Kings 3:18
Context3:18 This is an easy task for the Lord; 6 he will also hand Moab over to you.
2 Kings 4:33
Context4:33 He went in by himself and closed the door. 7 Then he prayed to the Lord.
2 Kings 11:3
Context11:3 He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple 8 for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
2 Kings 11:13
Context11:13 When Athaliah heard the royal guard 9 shout, she joined the crowd 10 at the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 12:2
Context12:2 Throughout his lifetime Jehoash did what the Lord approved, 11 just as 12 Jehoiada the priest taught him.
2 Kings 15:3
Context15:3 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Amaziah had done. 13
2 Kings 15:34
Context15:34 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. 14
2 Kings 15:37
Context15:37 In those days the Lord prompted King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah to attack Judah. 15
2 Kings 17:2
Context17:2 He did evil in the sight of 16 the Lord, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.
2 Kings 18:3
Context18:3 He did what the Lord approved, just as his ancestor David had done. 17
2 Kings 18:15
Context18:15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver in 18 the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
2 Kings 19:17
Context19:17 It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.
2 Kings 19:33
Context19:33 He will go back the way he came.
He will not enter this city,” says the Lord.
2 Kings 20:4
Context20:4 Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the Lord told him, 19
2 Kings 21:5
Context21:5 In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.
2 Kings 21:20
Context21:20 He did evil in the sight of 20 the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done.
2 Kings 22:11
Context22:11 When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.
2 Kings 23:32
Context23:32 He did evil in the sight of 21 the Lord as his ancestors had done. 22
2 Kings 23:37
Context23:37 He did evil in the sight of 23 the Lord as his ancestors had done.
2 Kings 24:9
Context24:9 He did evil in the sight of 24 the Lord as his ancestors had done.
2 Kings 24:19
Context24:19 He did evil in the sight of 25 the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done. 26
1 tn Or “when.”
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn The term used refers to one who plays a stringed instrument, perhaps a harp.
4 tn Heb “the hand of the
5 tn Heb “making this valley cisterns, cisterns.” The Hebrew noun גֵּב (gev) means “cistern” in Jer 14:3 (cf. Jer 39:10). The repetition of the noun is for emphasis. See GKC 396 §123.e. The verb (“making”) is an infinitive absolute, which has to be interpreted in light of the context. The translation above takes it in an imperatival sense. The command need not be understood as literal, but as hyperbolic. Telling them to build cisterns is a dramatic way of leading into the announcement that he would miraculously provide water in the desert. Some prefer to translate the infinitive as an imperfect with the Lord as the understood subject, “I will turn this valley [into] many pools.”
6 tn Heb “and this is easy in the eyes of the
7 tn Heb “and closed the door behind the two of them.”
8 tn Heb “and he was with her [in] the house of the
9 tc The MT reads, “and Athaliah heard the sound of the runners, the people.” The term הָעָם (ha’am), “the people,” is probably a scribal addition anticipating the reference to the people later in the verse and in v. 14.
10 tn Heb “she came to the people.”
11 tn Heb “and Jehoash did what was proper in the eyes of the
12 tn Heb “that which.” Jehoiada taught the king the Lord’s will.
13 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
14 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
15 tn Heb “the
16 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
17 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
18 tn Heb “that was found.”
19 tc Heb “and Isaiah had not gone out of the middle courtyard, and the word of the
20 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
21 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
22 tn Heb “according to all which his fathers had done.”
23 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
24 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
25 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
26 tn Heb “according to all which Jehoiakim had done.”
