2 Kings 4:8
Context4:8 One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent 1 woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. 2 So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal. 3
2 Kings 6:29
Context6:29 So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, ‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”
2 Kings 8:15
Context8:15 The next day Hazael 4 took a piece of cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over Ben Hadad’s 5 face until he died. Then Hazael replaced him as king.
2 Kings 17:23
Context17:23 Finally 6 the Lord rejected Israel 7 just as he had warned he would do 8 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.
2 Kings 17:34
Context17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship 9 the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave 10 the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.
2 Kings 17:41
Context17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.
2 Kings 19:3
Context19:3 “This is what Hezekiah says: 11 ‘This is a day of distress, insults, 12 and humiliation, 13 as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. 14
2 Kings 19:37
Context19:37 One day, 15 as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, 16 his sons 17 Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. 18 They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.
2 Kings 20:8
Context20:8 Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What is the confirming sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the Lord’s temple the day after tomorrow?”
2 Kings 20:17
Context20:17 ‘Look, a time is 19 coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.
2 Kings 25:8
Context25:8 On the seventh 20 day of the fifth month, 21 in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard 22 who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. 23
1 tn Heb “great,” perhaps “wealthy.”
2 tn Or “she urged him to eat some food.”
3 tn Or “he would turn aside there to eat some food.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hazael) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “until.”
7 tn Heb “the
8 tn Heb “just as he said.”
9 tn Heb “fear.”
10 tn Heb “commanded.”
11 tn In the Hebrew text this verse begins with “they said to him.”
12 tn Or “rebuke,” “correction.”
13 tn Or “contempt.”
14 tn Heb “when sons come to the cervical opening and there is no strength to give birth.”
15 sn The assassination probably took place in 681
16 sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.
17 tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew
18 sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.
19 tn Heb “days are.”
20 tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”
21 sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586
22 tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.
23 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.