2 Kings 4:25
Context4:25 So she went to visit 1 the prophet at Mount Carmel. When he 2 saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, it’s the Shunammite woman.
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. 3 King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design. 4
2 Kings 17:23-24
Context17:23 Finally 5 the Lord rejected Israel 6 just as he had warned he would do 7 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.
17:24 The king of Assyria brought foreigners 8 from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria 9 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 10 its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria 11 had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.
2 Kings 22:16
Context22:16 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which the king of Judah has read. 12
2 Kings 23:17
Context23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet 13 who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
1 tn Heb “went and came.”
2 tn Heb “the man of God.” The phrase has been replaced by the relative pronoun “he” in the translation for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Heb “in Damascus.”
4 tn Heb “the likeness of the altar and its pattern for all its work.”
5 tn Heb “until.”
6 tn Heb “the
7 tn Heb “just as he said.”
8 tn The object is supplied in the translation.
9 sn In vv. 24-29 Samaria stands for the entire northern kingdom of Israel.
10 sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.
11 tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.
12 tn Heb “all the words of the scroll which the king of Judah has read.”
13 tn Heb “man of God.”