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 7:9
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. 4 If we wait until dawn, 5 we’ll be punished. 6 So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”
2 Kings 8:6
Context8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. 7 The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, 8 “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 8:9
Context8:9 So Hazael went to visit Elisha. 9 He took along a gift, 10 as well as 11 forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said, “Your son, 12 King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question, 13 ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
2 Kings 10:19
Context10:19 So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. 14 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 15 so he could destroy the servants of Baal.
2 Kings 11:9
Context11:9 The officers of the units of hundreds did just as 16 Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath, and reported 17 to Jehoiada the priest.
2 Kings 12:18
Context12:18 King Jehoash of Judah collected all the sacred items that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, as well as his own sacred items and all the gold that could be found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He sent it all 18 to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew 19 from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 20:1
Context20:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. 20 The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’” 21
2 Kings 20:13
Context20:13 Hezekiah welcomed 22 them and showed them his whole storehouse, with its silver, gold, spices, and high quality olive oil, as well as his armory and everything in his treasuries. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom. 23
2 Kings 23:12
Context23:12 The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. He crushed them up 24 and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.
2 Kings 25:24-25
Context25:24 Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. 25 He said, “You don’t need to be afraid to submit to the Babylonian officials. Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you.” 25:25 But in the seventh month 26 Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, 27 came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, 28 as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.
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 “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”
5 tn Heb “the light of the morning.”
6 tn Heb “punishment will find us.”
7 tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”
8 tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”
9 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn The Hebrew text also has “in his hand.”
11 tn Heb “and.” It is possible that the conjunction is here explanatory, equivalent to English “that is.” In this case the forty camel loads constitute the “gift” and one should translate, “He took along a gift, consisting of forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus.”
12 sn The words “your son” emphasize the king’s respect for the prophet.
13 tn Heb “saying.”
14 tn Heb “and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests summon to me.”
15 tn Heb “acted with deception [or, ‘trickery’].”
16 tn Heb “according to all that.”
17 tn Heb “came.”
18 tn The object (“it all”) is supplied in the translation for clarification.
19 tn Heb “went up.”
20 tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying.”
21 tn Heb “will not live.”
22 tc Heb “listened to.” Some Hebrew
23 tn Heb “there was nothing which Hezekiah did not show them in his house and in all his kingdom.”
24 tc The MT reads, “he ran from there,” which makes little if any sense in this context. Some prefer to emend the verbal form (Qal of רוּץ [ruts], “run”) to a Hiphil of רוּץ with third plural suffix and translate, “he quickly removed them” (see BDB 930 s.v. רוּץ, and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings [AB], 289). The suffix could have been lost in MT by haplography (note the mem [מ] that immediately follows the verb on the form מִשֳׁם, misham, “from there”). Another option, the one reflected in the translation, is to emend the verb to a Piel of רָצַץ (ratsats), “crush,” with third plural suffix.
25 tn The words “so as to give them…some assurance of safety” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
26 sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; Jer 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; Jer 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (Jer 40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (Jer 52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).
27 tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”
28 tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”
