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 19:24
Context19:24 I dug wells and drank
water in foreign lands. 4
With the soles of my feet I dried up
all the rivers of Egypt.’
2 Kings 20:3
Context20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you 5 faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, 6 and how I have carried out your will.” 7 Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. 8
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 “I dug and drank foreign waters.”
5 tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.
6 tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”
7 tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”
8 tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”
