Discovery Box2 Kings 2:2 
Context2:2 Elijah told Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel.” 1 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 2:4
Context2:4 Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” 2 But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
2 Kings 2:6
Context2:6 Elijah said to him, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they traveled on together.
2 Kings 2:9
Context2:9 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “What can I do for you, 3 before I am taken away from you?” Elisha answered, “May I receive a double portion of the prophetic spirit that energizes you.” 4
2 Kings 3:22
Context3:22 When they got up early the next morning, the sun was shining on the water. To the Moabites, who were some distance away, the water looked red like blood.
2 Kings 4:41
Context4:41 He said, “Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said, “Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.” 5 There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.
2 Kings 5:23
Context5:23 Naaman said, “Please accept two talents of silver. 6 He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi. 7
2 Kings 6:23
Context6:23 So he threw a big banquet 8 for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back 9 to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.
2 Kings 7:3
Context7:3 Now four men with a skin disease 10 were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, “Why are we just sitting here waiting to die? 11
2 Kings 7:15-16
Context7:15 So they tracked them 12 as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. 13 The scouts 14 went back and told the king. 7:16 Then the people went out and looted the Syrian camp. A seah 15 of finely milled flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, just as the Lord had said they would. 16
2 Kings 9:33
Context9:33 He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down, and when she hit the ground, 17 her blood splattered against the wall and the horses, and Jehu drove his chariot over her. 18
2 Kings 9:36
Context9:36 When they went back and told him, he said, “The Lord’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, 19 ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.
2 Kings 10:8
Context10:8 The messenger came and told Jehu, 20 “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” Jehu 21 said, “Stack them in two piles at the entrance of the city gate until morning.”
2 Kings 10:14
Context10:14 He said, “Capture them alive!” So they captured them alive and then executed all forty-two of them in the cistern at Beth Eked. He left no survivors.
2 Kings 10:21
Context10:21 Jehu sent invitations throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one was absent. They arrived at the temple of Baal and filled it up from end to end. 22
2 Kings 10:24
Context10:24 They went inside to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside. He had told them, “If any of the men inside get away, you will pay with your lives!” 23
2 Kings 11:11
Context11:11 The royal bodyguard 24 took their stations, each holding his weapon in his hand. They lined up from the south side of the temple to the north side and stood near the altar and the temple, surrounding the king. 25
2 Kings 12:10
Context12:10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary 26 and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up. 27
2 Kings 12:12
Context12:12 as well as masons and stonecutters. They bought wood and chiseled stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s temple and also paid for all the other expenses. 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 17:7
Context17:7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of 30 Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped 31 other gods;
2 Kings 17:24
Context17:24 The king of Assyria brought foreigners 32 from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria 33 in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.
2 Kings 17:29
Context17:29 But each of these nations made 34 its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria 35 had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.
2 Kings 18:18
Context18:18 They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them.
2 Kings 19:35
Context19:35 That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they 36 got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. 37
2 Kings 19:37
Context19:37 One day, 38 as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, 39 his sons 40 Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. 41 They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.
2 Kings 21:8
Context21:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, 42 provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law my servant Moses ordered them to obey.”
2 Kings 22:20
Context22:20 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. 43 You will not have to witness 44 all the disaster I will bring on this place.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.
2 Kings 23:9
Context23:9 (Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.) 45
2 Kings 23:18
Context23:18 The king 46 said, “Leave it alone! No one must touch his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, as well as the bones of the Israelite prophet buried beside him. 47
2 Kings 25:13
Context25:13 The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the Lord’s temple, as well as the movable stands and the big bronze basin called the “The Sea.” 48 They took the bronze to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:26
Context25:26 Then all the people, from the youngest to the oldest, as well as the army officers, left for 49 Egypt, because they were afraid of what the Babylonians might do.
1 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
2 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
3 tn Heb “Ask! What can I do for you….?”
4 tn Heb “May a double portion of your spirit come to me.”
5 tn Or “and let them eat.”
6 tn Heb “Be resolved and accept two talents.”
7 tn Heb “before him.”
8 tn Or “held a great feast.”
9 tn Heb “they went back.”
10 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 5:1.
11 tn Heb “until we die.”
12 tn Heb “went after.”
13 tn Heb “and look, all the road was full of clothes and equipment that Syria had thrown away in their haste.”
14 tn Or “messengers.”
15 sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.
16 tn Heb “according to the word of the
17 tn The words “when she hit the ground” are added for stylistic reasons.
18 tn Heb “and he trampled her.”
19 tn Heb “It is the word of the
20 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
21 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22 tn Heb “and the house of Baal was filled mouth to mouth.”
23 tn Heb “The man who escapes from the men whom I am bringing into your hands, [it will be] his life in place of his life.”
24 tn Heb “the runners” (also in v. 19).
25 tn Heb “and the runners stood, each with his weapons in his hand, from the south shoulder of the house to the north shoulder of the house, at the altar and at the house, near the king all around.”
26 tn Heb “the king’s scribe.”
27 tn Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the
28 tn Heb “and for all that which was going out concerning the house for repair.”
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 tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons.
31 tn Heb “feared.”
32 tn The object is supplied in the translation.
33 sn In vv. 24-29 Samaria stands for the entire northern kingdom of Israel.
34 sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.
35 tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.
36 tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.
37 tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies.”
38 sn The assassination probably took place in 681
39 sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.
40 tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew
41 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.
42 tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I gave to their fathers.”
43 tn Heb “Therefore, look, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”
44 tn Heb “your eyes will not see.”
45 tn Heb “their brothers.”
46 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
47 tn Heb “and they left undisturbed his bones, the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.” If the phrase “the bones of the prophet” were appositional to “his bones,” one would expect the sentence to end “from Judah” (see v. 17). Apparently the “prophet” referred to in the second half of the verse is the old prophet from Bethel who buried the man of God from Judah in his own tomb and instructed his sons to bury his bones there as well (1 Kgs 13:30-31). One expects the text to read “from Bethel,” but “Samaria” (which was not even built at the time of the incident recorded in 1 Kgs 13) is probably an anachronistic reference to the northern kingdom in general. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:32 and the discussion in M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 290.
48 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.
49 tn Heb “arose and went to.”
