Discovery Box2 Kings 2:9 
Context2:9 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “What can I do for you, 1 before I am taken away from you?” Elisha answered, “May I receive a double portion of the prophetic spirit that energizes you.” 2
2 Kings 2:14
Context2:14 He took the cloak that had fallen off Elijah, 3 hit the water with it, and said, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” When he hit the water, it divided and Elisha crossed over.
2 Kings 3:2
Context3:2 He did evil in the sight of 4 the Lord, but not to the same degree as his father and mother. He did remove the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.
2 Kings 3:9
Context3:9 So the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom 5 set out together. They wandered around on the road for seven days and finally ran out of water for the men and animals they had with them.
2 Kings 5:8
Context5:8 When Elisha the prophet 6 heard that the king had torn his clothes, he sent this message to the king, “Why did you tear your clothes? Send him 7 to me so he may know there is a prophet in Israel.”
2 Kings 5:14
Context5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. 8 His skin became as smooth as a young child’s 9 and he was healed.
2 Kings 6:20
Context6:20 When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O Lord, open their eyes, so they can see.” The Lord opened their eyes and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria. 10
2 Kings 7:15-16
Context7:15 So they tracked them 11 as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. 12 The scouts 13 went back and told the king. 7:16 Then the people went out and looted the Syrian camp. A seah 14 of finely milled flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, just as the Lord had said they would. 15
2 Kings 8:18
Context8:18 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. 16 He did evil in the sight of 17 the Lord.
2 Kings 8:21
Context8:21 Joram 18 crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers. 19 The Israelite army retreated to their homeland. 20
2 Kings 9:14
Context9:14 Then Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.
Now Joram had been in Ramoth Gilead with the whole Israelite army, 21 guarding against an invasion by King Hazael of Syria.
2 Kings 9:34
Context9:34 He went inside and had a meal. 22 Then he said, “Dispose of this accursed woman’s corpse. Bury her, for after all, she was a king’s daughter.” 23
2 Kings 10:1
Context10:1 Ahab had seventy sons living in Samaria. 24 So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the leading officials of Jezreel and to the guardians of Ahab’s dynasty. This is what the letters said, 25
2 Kings 10:10
Context10:10 Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the Lord announced against Ahab’s dynasty has failed to materialize. The Lord had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.” 26
2 Kings 10:31
Context10:31 But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the Lord God of Israel. 27 He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit. 28
2 Kings 12:10-11
Context12:10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary 29 and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up. 30 12:11 They would then hand over 31 the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen 32 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,
2 Kings 13:2
Context13:2 He did evil in the sight of 33 the Lord. He continued in 34 the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins. 35
2 Kings 13:14
Context13:14 Now Elisha had a terminal illness. 36 King Joash of Israel went down to visit him. 37 He wept before him and said, “My father, my father! The chariot 38 and horsemen of Israel!” 39
2 Kings 13:19
Context13:19 The prophet 40 got angry at him and said, “If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! 41 But now, you will defeat Syria only three times.”
2 Kings 13:25
Context13:25 Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash took back from 42 Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities.
2 Kings 15:9
Context15:9 He did evil in the sight of 43 the Lord, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate 44 the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.
2 Kings 16:11
Context16:11 Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. 45 Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus. 46
2 Kings 17:23
Context17:23 Finally 47 the Lord rejected Israel 48 just as he had warned he would do 49 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.
2 Kings 17:29
Context17:29 But each of these nations made 50 its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria 51 had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.
2 Kings 18:12
Context18:12 This happened because they did not obey 52 the Lord their God and broke his agreement with them. 53 They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded. 54
2 Kings 18:16
Context18:16 At that time King Hezekiah of Judah stripped the metal overlays from the doors of the Lord’s temple and from the posts which he had plated 55 and gave them to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 18:37
Context18:37 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn 56 and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.
2 Kings 20:8
Context20:8 Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What is the confirming sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the Lord’s temple the day after tomorrow?”
2 Kings 23:13
Context23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, 57 that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.
2 Kings 23:22
Context23:22 He issued this edict because 58 a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah. 59
2 Kings 24:2
Context24:2 The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets. 60
2 Kings 24:7
Context24:7 The king of Egypt did not march out from his land again, for the king of Babylon conquered all the territory that the king of Egypt had formerly controlled between the Brook of Egypt and the Euphrates River.
2 Kings 25:7
Context25:7 Zedekiah’s sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch. 61 The king of Babylon 62 then had Zedekiah’s eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:11
Context25:11 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, deported the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. 63
1 tn Heb “Ask! What can I do for you….?”
2 tn Heb “May a double portion of your spirit come to me.”
3 tn Heb “Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him.” The wording is changed slightly in the translation for the sake of variety of expression (see v. 13).
4 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
5 tn Heb “the king of Israel and the king of Judah and the king of Edom.”
6 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 15, 20).
7 tn Heb “Let him come.”
8 tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”
9 tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”
10 tn Heb “and they saw, and look, [they were] in the middle of Samaria.”
11 tn Heb “went after.”
12 tn Heb “and look, all the road was full of clothes and equipment that Syria had thrown away in their haste.”
13 tn Or “messengers.”
14 sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.
15 tn Heb “according to the word of the
16 tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”
17 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
18 sn Joram is a short form of the name Jehoram.
19 tn Heb “and he arose at night and defeated Edom, who had surrounded him, and the chariot officers.” The Hebrew text as it stands gives the impression that Joram was surrounded and launched a victorious night counterattack. It would then be quite natural to understand the last statement in the verse to refer to an Edomite retreat. Yet v. 22 goes on to state that the Edomite revolt was successful. Therefore, if the MT is retained, it may be better to understand the final statement in v. 21 as a reference to an Israelite retreat (made in spite of the success described in the preceding sentence). The translation above assumes an emendation of the Hebrew text. Adding a third masculine singular pronominal suffix to the accusative sign before Edom (reading אֶתוֹ [’eto], “him,” instead of just אֶת [’et]) and taking Edom as the subject of verbs allows one to translate the verse in a way that is more consistent with the context, which depicts an Israelite defeat, not victory. There is, however, no evidence for this emendation.
20 tn Heb “and the people fled to their tents.”
21 tn Heb “he and all Israel.”
22 tn Heb “and he went and ate and drank.”
23 tn Heb “Attend to this accursed woman and bury her for she was the daughter of a king.”
24 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
25 tn Heb “to the officers of Jezreel, the elders, and to the guardians of Ahab, saying.” It is not certain why the officials of Jezreel would be in Samaria. They may have fled there after they heard what happened to Joram and before Jehu entered the city. They would have had time to flee while Jehu was pursuing Ahaziah.
26 tn Heb “Know then that there has not fallen from the word of the
27 tn Heb “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the
28 tn Heb “He did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to commit.”
29 tn Heb “the king’s scribe.”
30 tn Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the
31 tn Heb “would give.”
32 tn Heb “doers of the work.”
33 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
34 tn Heb “walked after.”
35 tn Heb “he did not turn aside from it.”
36 tn Heb “Now Elisha was ill with the illness by which he would die.”
37 tn Heb “went down to him.”
38 tn Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”
39 sn By comparing Elisha to a one-man army, the king emphasizes the power of the prophetic word. See the note at 2:12.
40 tn Heb “man of God.”
41 tn Heb “[It was necessary] to strike five or six times, then you would strike down Syria until destruction.” On the syntax of the infinitive construct, see GKC 349 §114.k.
42 tn Heb “from the hand of.”
43 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
44 tn Heb “turn away from.”
45 tn Heb “according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus.”
46 tn Heb “so Uriah the priest did, until the arrival of King Ahaz from Damascus.”
47 tn Heb “until.”
48 tn Heb “the
49 tn Heb “just as he said.”
50 sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.
51 tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.
52 tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”
53 tn Heb “his covenant.”
54 tn Heb “all that Moses, the
55 tn Heb “At that time Hezekiah stripped the doors of the
56 sn As a sign of grief and mourning.
57 sn This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mashÿkhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mashÿkhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.
58 tn The Hebrew text has simply “because.” The translation attempts to reflect more clearly the logical connection between the king’s order and the narrator’s observation. Another option is to interpret כִּי (ki) as asseverative and translate, “indeed.”
59 tn Heb “because there had not been observed [one] like this Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel and all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.”
60 tn Heb “he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the
61 tn Heb “were killed before his eyes.”
62 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
63 tc The MT has “the multitude.” But הֶהָמוֹן (hehamon) should probably be emended to הֶאָמוֹן (he’amon).
