Discovery Box2 Kings 2:16 
Context2:16 They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord 1 may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha 2 replied, “Don’t send them out.”
2 Kings 3:13
Context3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here? 3 Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”
2 Kings 4:1
Context4:1 Now a wife of one of the prophets 4 appealed 5 to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. 6 Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”
2 Kings 6:17
Context6:17 Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes so he can see.” The Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw that 7 the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
2 Kings 8:1
Context8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, 8 for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”
2 Kings 9:25
Context9:25 Jehu ordered 9 his officer Bidkar, “Pick him up and throw him into the part of the field that once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel. Remember, you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, when the Lord pronounced this judgment on him,
2 Kings 10:30
Context10:30 The Lord said to Jehu, “You have done well. You have accomplished my will and carried out my wishes with regard to Ahab’s dynasty. Therefore four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” 10
2 Kings 11:4
Context11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned 11 the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians 12 and the royal bodyguard. 13 He met with them 14 in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement 15 with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.
2 Kings 12:4
Context12:4 Jehoash said to the priests, “I place at your disposal 16 all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the Lord’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, 17 the silver received from those who have made vows, 18 and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the Lord’s temple. 19
2 Kings 13:17
Context13:17 Elisha 20 said, “Open the east window,” and he did so. 21 Elisha said, “Shoot!” and
he did so. 22 Elisha 23 said, “This arrow symbolizes the victory the Lord will give you over Syria. 24 You will annihilate Syria in Aphek!” 25
2 Kings 14:6
Context14:6 But he did not execute the sons of the assassins. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, 26 “Fathers must not be put to death for what their sons do, 27 and sons must not be put to death for what their fathers do. 28 A man must be put to death only for his own sin.” 29
2 Kings 17:13
Context17:13 The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” 30
2 Kings 18:32
Context18:32 until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, “The Lord will rescue us.”
2 Kings 21:3
Context21:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky 31 and worshiped 32 them.
2 Kings 22:19
Context22:19 ‘You displayed a sensitive spirit 33 and humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard how I intended to make this place and its residents into an appalling example of an accursed people. 34 You tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,’ says the Lord.
2 Kings 23:4
Context23:4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests, 35 and the guards 36 to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of 37 Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky. 38 The king 39 burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces 40 of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. 41
1 tn Or “the spirit of the
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Or “What do we have in common?” The text reads literally, “What to me and to you?”
4 tn Heb “a wife from among the wives of the sons of the prophets.”
5 tn Or “cried out.”
6 tn Heb “your servant feared the
7 tn Heb “and he saw, and look.”
8 tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”
9 tn Heb “said to.”
10 tn Heb “Because you have done well by doing what is proper in my eyes – according to all which was in my heart you have done to the house of Ahab – sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.” In the Hebrew text the Lord’s statement is one long sentence (with a parenthesis). The translation above divides it into shorter sentences for stylistic reasons.
sn Jehu ruled over Israel from approximately 841-814
11 tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”
12 sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.
13 tn Heb “the runners.”
14 tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”
15 tn Or “covenant.”
16 tn The words “I place at your disposal” are added in the translation for clarification.
17 tn Heb “the silver of passing over a man.” The precise meaning of the phrase is debated, but עָבַר (’avar), “pass over,” probably refers here to counting, suggesting the reference is to a census conducted for taxation purposes. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.
18 tn Heb “the silver of persons, his valuation.” The precise meaning of the phrase is uncertain, but parallels in Lev 27 suggest that personal vows are referred to here. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.
19 tn Heb “all the silver which goes up on the heart of a man to bring to the house of the
20 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
21 tn Heb “He opened [it].”
22 tn Heb “and he shot.”
23 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
24 tn Heb “The arrow of victory of the
25 tn Heb “you will strike down Syria in Aphek until destruction.”
26 tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the
27 tn Heb “on account of sons.”
28 tn Heb “on account of fathers.”
29 sn This law is recorded in Deut 24:16.
30 tn Heb “obey my commandments and rules according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.”
31 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 17:16.
32 tn Or “served.”
33 tn Heb “Because your heart was tender.”
34 tn Heb “how I said concerning this place and its residents to become [an object of] horror and [an example of] a curse.” The final phrase (“horror and a curse”) refers to Judah becoming a prime example of an accursed people. In curse formulations they would be held up as a prime example of divine judgment. For an example of such a curse, see Jer 29:22.
35 tn Heb “the priests of the second [rank],” that is, those ranked just beneath Hilkiah.
36 tn Or “doorkeepers.”
37 tn Heb “for.”
38 tn Heb “all the host of heaven” (also in v. 5).
39 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
40 tn Or “fields.” For a defense of the translation “terraces,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 285.
41 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
