Discovery Box2 Kings 4:3 
Context4:3 He said, “Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. 1 Get as many as you can. 2
2 Kings 4:15
Context4:15 Elisha told him, “Ask her to come here.” 3 So he did so 4 and she came and stood in the doorway. 5
2 Kings 4:18-19
Context4:18 The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers. 6 4:19 He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father 7 told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
2 Kings 4:44
Context4:44 So he set it before them; they ate and had some left over, just as the Lord predicted. 8
2 Kings 6:3
Context6:3 One of them said, “Please come along with your servants.” He replied, “All right, I’ll come.”
2 Kings 6:21
Context6:21 When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “Should I strike them down, 9 my master?” 10
2 Kings 6:27
Context6:27 He replied, “No, let the Lord help you. How can I help you? The threshing floor and winepress are empty.” 11
2 Kings 9:23
Context9:23 Jehoram turned his chariot around and took off. 12 He said to Ahaziah, “It’s a trap, 13 Ahaziah!”
2 Kings 10:12
Context10:12 Jehu then left there and set out for Samaria. 14 While he was traveling through Beth Eked of the Shepherds,
2 Kings 15:10
Context15:10 Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him; he assassinated him in Ibleam 15 and took his place as king.
2 Kings 16:4
Context16:4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Kings 16:12
Context16:12 When the king arrived back from Damascus and 16 saw the altar, he approached it 17 and offered a sacrifice on it. 18
2 Kings 17:5
Context17:5 The king of Assyria marched through 19 the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.
2 Kings 17:39
Context17:39 Instead you must worship the Lord your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.”
2 Kings 18:8
Context18:8 He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from the watchtower to the city fortress. 20
2 Kings 19:1
Context19:1 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 19:36
Context19:36 So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh. 21
2 Kings 21:4-5
Context21:4 He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my home.” 22 21:5 In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.
2 Kings 21:22
Context21:22 He abandoned the Lord God of his ancestors and did not follow the Lord’s instructions. 23
2 Kings 21:26
Context21:26 He was buried 24 in his tomb in the garden of Uzzah, and his son Josiah replaced him as king.
2 Kings 23:14
Context23:14 He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines 25 with human bones.
2 Kings 24:3-4
Context24:3 Just as the Lord had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins which Manasseh had committed. 26 24:4 Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the Lord was unwilling to forgive them. 27
2 Kings 24:17
Context24:17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s 28 uncle, king in Jehoiachin’s place. He renamed him Zedekiah.
2 Kings 25:12
Context25:12 But he 29 left behind some of the poor of the land and gave them fields and vineyards.
1 tn Heb “Go, ask for containers from outside, from all your neighbors, empty containers.”
2 tn Heb “Do not borrow just a few.”
3 tn Heb “Call for her.”
4 tn Heb “and he called her.”
5 tn Heb “and he called for her and she stood in the door.”
6 tn Heb “to his father, to the harvesters.”
7 tn Heb “He”; the referent (the boy’s father) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Heb “according to the word of the
9 tn Heb “Should I strike them down? I will strike them down.” In the Hebrew text the first person imperfect form is repeated; the first form has the interrogative he prefixed to it; the second does not. It is likely that the second form should be omitted as dittographic or that the first should be emended to an infinitive absolute.
10 tn Heb “my father.” The king addresses the prophet in this way to indicate his respect. See 2 Kgs 2:12.
11 tn Heb “From where can I help you, from the threshing floor or the winepress?” The rhetorical question expresses the king’s frustration. He has no grain or wine to give to the masses.
12 tn Heb “and Jehoram turned his hands and fled.” The phrase “turned his hands” refers to how he would have pulled on the reins in order to make his horses turn around.
13 tn Heb “Deceit, Ahaziah.”
14 tn Heb “and he arose and went and came to Samaria.”
15 tc The MT reads, “and he struck him down before the people and killed him” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). However, the reading קָבָל עָם (qaval ’am), “before the people,” is problematic to some because קָבָל is a relatively late Aramaic term. Nevertheless, the Aramaic term qobel certainly antedates the writing of Kings. The bigger problem seems to be the unnecessary intrusion of an Aramaic word at all here. Most interpreters prefer to follow Lucian’s Greek version and read “in Ibleam” (בְיִבְלְעָם, bÿivle’am). Cf. NAB, TEV.
16 tn Heb “and the king.”
17 tn Heb “the altar.”
18 tn Or “ascended it.”
19 tn Heb “went up against.”
20 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 17:9.
21 tn Heb “and Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned and lived in Nineveh.”
22 tn Heb “In Jerusalem I will place my name.”
23 tn Heb “and did not walk in the way of the
24 tn Heb “he buried him.” Here “he” probably refers to Amon’s son Josiah.
25 tn Heb “their places.”
26 tn Heb “Certainly according to the word of the
27 tn Heb “and also the blood of the innocent which he shed, and he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the
28 tn Heb “his.”
29 tn Heb “the captain of the royal guard.” However, the subject is clear from the preceding and contemporary English style would normally avoid repeating the proper name and title.
