Discovery Box2 Kings 5:16 
Context5:16 But Elisha 1 replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives (whom I serve), 2 I will take nothing from you.” Naaman 3 insisted that he take it, but he refused.
2 Kings 11:17
Context11:17 Jehoiada then drew up a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, stipulating that they should be loyal to the Lord. 4
2 Kings 13:4
Context13:4 Jehoahaz asked for the Lord’s mercy 5 and the Lord responded favorably, 6 for he saw that Israel was oppressed by the king of Syria. 7
2 Kings 18:6
Context18:6 He was loyal to 8 the Lord and did not abandon him. 9 He obeyed the commandments which the Lord had given to 10 Moses.
2 Kings 18:25
Context18:25 Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March 11 up against this land and destroy it.’”’” 12
2 Kings 18:30
Context18:30 Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord when he says, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”
2 Kings 19:14
Context19:14 Hezekiah took the letter 13 from the messengers and read it. 14 Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.
2 Kings 21:2
Context21:2 He did evil in the sight of 15 the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations 16 whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.
2 Kings 21:21
Context21:21 He followed in the footsteps of his father 17 and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols 18 which his father had worshiped. 19
2 Kings 22:5
Context22:5 Have them hand it over to the construction foremen 20 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it, 21
2 Kings 22:8
Context22:8 Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it.
2 Kings 24:20
Context24:20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence. 22 Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “before whom I stand.”
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “and Jehoiada made a covenant between the
5 tn Heb “appeased the face of the
6 tn Heb “and the
7 tn Heb “for he saw the oppression of Israel, for the king of Syria oppressed them.”
8 tn Heb “he hugged.”
9 tn Heb “and did not turn aside from after him.”
10 tn Heb “had commanded.”
11 tn Heb “Go.”
12 sn In v. 25 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 22. He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commissioned Assyria as his instrument of discipline and judgment.
13 tc The MT has the plural, “letters,” but the final mem is probably dittographic (note the initial mem on the form that immediately follows). Some Greek and Aramaic witnesses have the singular.
14 tc The MT has the plural suffix, “them,” but this probably reflects a later harmonization to the preceding textual corruption (of “letter” to “letters”). The parallel passage in Isa 37:14 has the singular suffix.
15 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
16 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
17 tn Heb “walked in all the way which his father walked.”
18 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
19 tn Heb “and he served the disgusting idols which his father served and he bowed down to them.”
20 tn Heb “doers of the work.”
21 tn Heb “and let them give it to the doers of the work who are in the house of the
22 tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the
