Discovery Box2 Kings 4:42 
Context4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet 1 – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. 2 Elisha 3 said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”
2 Kings 5:15
Context5:15 He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman 4 came and stood before him. He said, “For sure 5 I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.”
2 Kings 6:32
Context6:32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. 6 The king 7 sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, 8 Elisha 9 said to the leaders, 10 “Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?” 11 Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.” 12
2 Kings 7:17
Context7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man 13 at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. 14 This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. 15
2 Kings 8:1
Context8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, 16 for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”
2 Kings 8:6
Context8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. 17 The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, 18 “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”
2 Kings 9:26
Context9:26 ‘“Know for sure that I saw the shed blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday,” says the Lord, “and that I will give you what you deserve right here in this plot of land,” 19 says the Lord.’ So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as the Lord said.” 20
2 Kings 10:6
Context10:6 He wrote them a second letter, saying, “If you are really on my side and are willing to obey me, 21 then take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow.” 22 Now the king had seventy sons, and the prominent 23 men of the city were raising them.
2 Kings 10:19
Context10:19 So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. 24 None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of them who fail to appear will lose their lives.” But Jehu was tricking them 25 so he could destroy the servants of Baal.
2 Kings 12:7
Context12:7 So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage.” 26
2 Kings 18:21
Context18:21 Now look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If a man leans for support on it, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him.
1 tn Heb “man of God.”
2 tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “look.”
6 tn Heb “and the elders were sitting with him.”
7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Heb “sent a man from before him, before the messenger came to him.”
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Heb “elders.”
11 tn Heb “Do you see that this son of an assassin has sent to remove my head?”
12 tn Heb “Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
13 tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”
14 tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”
15 tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”
16 tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”
17 tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”
18 tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”
19 tn Heb “and I will repay you in this plot of land.”
20 tn Heb “according to the word of the
21 tn Heb “If you are mine and you are listening to my voice.”
22 sn Jehu’s command is intentionally vague. Does he mean that they should bring the guardians (those who are “heads” over Ahab’s sons) for a meeting, or does he mean that they should bring the literal heads of Ahab’s sons with them? (So LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and some
23 tn Heb “great,” probably in wealth, position, and prestige.
24 tn Heb “and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests summon to me.”
25 tn Heb “acted with deception [or, ‘trickery’].”
26 tn Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers, because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”
