Discovery Box2 Kings 2:23 
Context2:23 He went up from there to Bethel. 1 As he was traveling up the road, some young boys 2 came out of the city and made fun of him, saying, “Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!”
2 Kings 4:6
Context4:6 When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons, 3 “Bring me another container.” But he answered her, “There are no more.” Then the olive oil stopped flowing.
2 Kings 4:8
Context4:8 One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent 4 woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. 5 So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal. 6
2 Kings 4:31
Context4:31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha 7 he told him, “The child did not wake up.”
2 Kings 4:38
Context4:38 Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him 8 and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire 9 and boil some stew for the prophets.” 10
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.” 11 There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.
2 Kings 5:8
Context5:8 When Elisha the prophet 12 heard that the king had torn his clothes, he sent this message to the king, “Why did you tear your clothes? Send him 13 to me so he may know there is a prophet in Israel.”
2 Kings 5:11
Context5:11 Naaman went away angry. He said, “Look, I thought for sure he would come out, stand there, invoke the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the area, and cure the skin disease.
2 Kings 6:15
Context6:15 The prophet’s 14 attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha, 15 “Oh no, my master! What will we do?”
2 Kings 9:5
Context9:5 When he arrived, the officers of the army were sitting there. 16 So he said, “I have a message for you, O officer.” 17 Jehu asked, “For which one of us?” 18 He replied, “For you, O officer.”
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 13:6
Context13:6 But they did not repudiate 19 the sinful ways of the family 20 of Jeroboam, who encouraged Israel to sin; they continued in those sins. 21 There was even an Asherah pole 22 standing in Samaria.
2 Kings 16:10
Context16:10 When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there. 23 King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design. 24
2 Kings 17:23
Context17:23 Finally 25 the Lord rejected Israel 26 just as he had warned he would do 27 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.
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 28 got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. 29
2 Kings 20:19
Context20:19 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The Lord’s word which you have announced is appropriate.” 30 Then he added, 31 “At least there will be peace and stability during my lifetime.” 32
2 Kings 23:27
Context23:27 The Lord announced, “I will also spurn Judah, 33 just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose – both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, “I will live there.” 34
2 Kings 24:16
Context24:16 The king of Babylon deported to Babylon all the soldiers (there were 7,000), as well as 1,000 craftsmen and metal workers. This included all the best warriors. 35
1 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
2 tn The word נַעַר (na’ar), here translated “boy,” can refer to a broad age range, including infants as well as young men. But the qualifying term “young” (or “small”) suggests these youths were relatively young. The phrase in question (“young boy”) occurs elsewhere in 1 Sam 20:35; 1 Kgs 3:7 (used by Solomon in an hyperbolic manner); 11:17; 2 Kgs 5:14; and Isa 11:6.
3 tn Heb “to her son.”
4 tn Heb “great,” perhaps “wealthy.”
5 tn Or “she urged him to eat some food.”
6 tn Or “he would turn aside there to eat some food.”
7 tn Heb “to meet him.”
8 tn Heb “the sons of the prophets were sitting before him.”
9 tn The words “the fire” are added for clarification.
10 tn Heb “sons of the prophets.”
11 tn Or “and let them eat.”
12 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 15, 20).
13 tn Heb “Let him come.”
14 tn Heb “man of God’s.”
15 tn Heb “his young servant said to him.”
16 tn Heb “and he arrived and look, the officers of the army were sitting.”
17 tn Heb “[there is] a word for me to you, O officer.”
18 tn Heb “To whom from all of us?”
19 tn Heb “they did not turn away from.”
20 tn Heb “house.”
21 tc Heb “in it he walked.” The singular verb (הָלַךְ, halakh) is probably due to an error of haplography and should be emended to the plural (הָלְכּוּ, halÿku). Note that a vav immediately follows (on the form וְגַם, vÿgam).
22 tn Or “an image of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “the Asherah”; NCV “the Asherah idol.”
sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).
23 tn Heb “in Damascus.”
24 tn Heb “the likeness of the altar and its pattern for all its work.”
25 tn Heb “until.”
26 tn Heb “the
27 tn Heb “just as he said.”
28 tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.
29 tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies.”
30 tn Heb “good.”
31 tn Heb “and he said.” Many English versions translate, “for he thought.” The verb אָמַר (’amar), “say,” is sometimes used of what one thinks (that is, says to oneself). Cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT.
32 tn Heb “Is it not [true] there will be peace and stability in my days?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, there will be peace and stability.”
33 tn Heb “Also Judah I will turn away from my face.”
34 tn Heb “My name will be there.”
35 tn Heb “the entire [group], mighty men, doers of war.”
