Discovery Box2 Kings 3:11 
Context3:11 Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the Lord here that we might seek the Lord’s direction?” 1 One of the servants of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shapat is here; he used to be Elijah’s servant.” 2
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 5:18
Context5:18 May the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to worship, and he leans on my arm and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.” 7
2 Kings 7:6
Context7:6 The Lord had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!”
2 Kings 7:9-10
Context7:9 Then they said to one another, “It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone. 8 If we wait until dawn, 9 we’ll be punished. 10 So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.” 7:10 So they went and called out to the gatekeepers 11 of the city. They told them, “We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn’t even hear a man’s voice. 12 But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up.” 13
2 Kings 7:13
Context7:13 One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!) 14 Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.” 15
2 Kings 13:21
Context13:21 One day some men 16 were burying a man when they spotted 17 a raiding party. So they threw the dead man 18 into Elisha’s tomb. When the body 19 touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man 20 came to life and stood on his feet.
2 Kings 15:20
Context15:20 Menahem got this silver by taxing all the wealthy men in Israel; he took fifty shekels of silver from each one of them and paid it to the king of Assyria. 21 Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.
2 Kings 18:22
Context18:22 Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.’
2 Kings 24:14
Context24:14 He deported all the residents of Jerusalem, including all the officials and all the soldiers (10,000 people in all). This included all the craftsmen and those who worked with metal. No one was left except for the poorest among the people of the land.
2 Kings 25:17
Context25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet 22 high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet 23 high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.
1 tn Heb “that we might inquire of the
2 tn Heb “who poured water on the hands of Elijah.” This refers to one of the typical tasks of a servant.
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 “When my master enters the house of Rimmon to bow down there, and he leans on my hand and I bow down [in] the house of Rimmon, when I bow down [in] the house of Rimmon, may the
sn Rimmon was the Syrian storm god. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 65.
8 tn Heb “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”
9 tn Heb “the light of the morning.”
10 tn Heb “punishment will find us.”
11 tn The MT has a singular form (“gatekeeper”), but the context suggests a plural. The pronoun that follows (“them”) is plural and a plural noun appears in v. 11. The Syriac Peshitta and the Targum have the plural here.
12 tn Heb “and, look, there was no man or voice of a man there.”
13 tn Heb “but the horses are tied up and the donkeys are tied up and the tents are as they were.”
14 tn Heb “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.” The MT is dittographic here; the words “that remain in it. Look they are like all the people of Israel” have been accidentally repeated. The original text read, “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.”
15 tn Heb “and let us send so we might see.”
16 tn Heb “and it so happened [that] they.”
17 tn Heb “and look, they saw.”
18 tn Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
19 tn Heb “the man.”
20 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the dead man) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Otherwise the reader might think it was Elisha rather than the unnamed dead man who came back to life.
21 tn Heb “and Menahem brought out the silver over Israel, over the prominent men of means, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver for each man.”
22 tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.
23 tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”
