Discovery Box2 Kings 4:29 
Context4:29 Elisha 1 told Gehazi, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff, 2 and go! Don’t stop to exchange greetings with anyone! 3 Place my staff on the child’s face.”
2 Kings 6:2
Context6:2 Let’s go to the Jordan. Each of us will get a log from there and we will build a meeting place for ourselves there.” He said, “Go.”
2 Kings 15:25
Context15:25 His officer Pekah son of Remaliah conspired against him. He and fifty Gileadites assassinated Pekahiah, as well as Argob and Arieh, in Samaria in the fortress of the royal palace. 4 Pekah then took his place as king.
2 Kings 15:30
Context15:30 Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He assassinated him 5 and took his place as king, in the twentieth year of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah.
2 Kings 17:24
Context17:24 The king of Assyria brought foreigners 6 from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria 7 in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.
2 Kings 18:25
Context18:25 Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March 8 up against this land and destroy it.’”’” 9
2 Kings 22:16-17
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. 10 22:17 This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices 11 to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made. 12 My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!’”
2 Kings 22:20
Context22:20 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. 13 You will not have to witness 14 all the disaster I will bring on this place.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.
2 Kings 23:19
Context23:19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. 15 He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. 16
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “take my staff in your hand.”
3 tn Heb “If you meet a man, do not greet him with a blessing; if a man greets you with a blessing, do not answer.”
4 tn Heb “and he struck him down in Samaria in the fortress of the house of the king, Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men from the sons of the Gileadites, and they killed him.”
sn The precise identity of Argob and Arieh, as well as their relationship to the king, are uncertain. The usual assumption is that they were officials assassinated along with Pekahiah, or that they were two of the more prominent Gileadites involved in the revolt. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 173.
5 tn Heb “and struck him down and killed him.”
6 tn The object is supplied in the translation.
7 sn In vv. 24-29 Samaria stands for the entire northern kingdom of Israel.
8 tn Heb “Go.”
9 sn In v. 25 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 22. He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commissioned Assyria as his instrument of discipline and judgment.
10 tn Heb “all the words of the scroll which the king of Judah has read.”
11 tn Or “burned incense.”
12 tn Heb “angering me with all the work of their hands.” The translation assumes that this refers to idols they have manufactured (note the preceding reference to “other gods,” as well as 19:18). However, it is possible that this is a general reference to their sinful practices, in which case one might translate, “angering me by all the things they do.”
13 tn Heb “Therefore, look, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”
14 tn Heb “your eyes will not see.”
15 tc Heb “which the kings of Israel had made, angering.” The object has been accidentally omitted in the MT. It appears in the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate versions.
16 tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”
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