Discovery Box2 Kings 5:15 
Context5:15 He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman 1 came and stood before him. He said, “For sure 2 I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.”
2 Kings 8:9
Context8:9 So Hazael went to visit Elisha. 3 He took along a gift, 4 as well as 5 forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said, “Your son, 6 King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question, 7 ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
2 Kings 11:14
Context11:14 Then she saw 8 the king standing by the pillar, according to custom. The officers stood beside the king with their trumpets and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!” 9
2 Kings 13:21
Context13:21 One day some men 10 were burying a man when they spotted 11 a raiding party. So they threw the dead man 12 into Elisha’s tomb. When the body 13 touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man 14 came to life and stood on his feet.
2 Kings 18:17
Context18:17 The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser 15 from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, 16 along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went 17 and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth. 18
2 Kings 23:3
Context23:3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed 19 the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow 20 the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, 21 by carrying out the terms 22 of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant. 23
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “look.”
3 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn The Hebrew text also has “in his hand.”
5 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.”
6 sn The words “your son” emphasize the king’s respect for the prophet.
7 tn Heb “saying.”
8 tn Heb “and she saw, and look.”
9 tn Or “conspiracy, conspiracy.”
10 tn Heb “and it so happened [that] they.”
11 tn Heb “and look, they saw.”
12 tn Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
13 tn Heb “the man.”
14 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the dead man) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Otherwise the reader might think it was Elisha rather than the unnamed dead man who came back to life.
15 sn For a discussion of these titles see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 229-30.
16 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
17 tn Heb “and they went up and came.”
18 tn Heb “the field of the washer.”
19 tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made, agreed to.”
20 tn Heb “walk after.”
21 tn Or “soul.”
22 tn Heb “words.”
23 tn Heb “stood in the covenant.”
