Discovery Box2 Kings 6:22 
Context6:22 He replied, “Do not strike them down! You did not capture them with your sword or bow, so what gives you the right to strike them down? 1 Give them some food and water, so they can eat and drink and then go back to their master.”
2 Kings 7:6
Context7:6 The Lord had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!”
2 Kings 7:8-9
Context7:8 When the men with a skin disease reached the edge of the camp, they entered a tent and had a meal. 2 They also took some silver, gold, and clothes and went and hid it all. 3 Then they went back and entered another tent. They looted it 4 and went and hid what they had taken. 7:9 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. 5 If we wait until dawn, 6 we’ll be punished. 7 So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”
2 Kings 9:6
Context9:6 So Jehu 8 got up and went inside. Then the prophet 9 poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I have designated you as king over the Lord’s people Israel.
2 Kings 9:15
Context9:15 But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians 10 when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. 11 Jehu told his supporters, 12 “If you really want me to be king, 13 then don’t let anyone escape from the city to go and warn Jezreel.”
2 Kings 10:6
Context10:6 He wrote them a second letter, saying, “If you are really on my side and are willing to obey me, 14 then take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow.” 15 Now the king had seventy sons, and the prominent 16 men of the city were raising them.
2 Kings 10:25
Context10:25 When he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Jehu ordered the royal guard 17 and officers, “Come in and strike them down! Don’t let any escape!” So the royal guard and officers struck them down with the sword and left their bodies lying there. 18 Then they entered the inner sanctuary of the temple of Baal. 19
2 Kings 11:4
Context11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned 20 the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians 21 and the royal bodyguard. 22 He met with them 23 in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement 24 with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.
2 Kings 11:14
Context11:14 Then she saw 25 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!” 26
2 Kings 11:18
Context11:18 All the people of the land went and demolished 27 the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols 28 to bits. 29 They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest 30 then placed guards at the Lord’s temple.
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 31 to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew 32 from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 14:9
Context14:9 King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal 33 of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn. 34
2 Kings 15:20
Context15:20 Menahem got this silver by taxing all the wealthy men in Israel; he took fifty shekels of silver from each one of them and paid it to the king of Assyria. 35 Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.
2 Kings 18:22
Context18:22 Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.’
2 Kings 18:31-32
Context18:31 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. 36 Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern, 18:32 until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, “The Lord will rescue us.”
2 Kings 25:4
Context25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls, 37 and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. 38 They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. 39 (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. 40
2 Kings 25:24
Context25:24 Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. 41 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.”
1 tn Heb “Are [they] ones you captured with your sword or your bow (that) you can strike (them) down?”
2 tn Heb “they ate and drank.”
3 tn Heb “and they hid [it].”
4 tn Heb “and they took from there.”
5 tn Heb “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”
6 tn Heb “the light of the morning.”
7 tn Heb “punishment will find us.”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”
11 sn See 2 Kgs 8:28-29a.
12 tn The words “his supporters” are added for clarification.
13 tn Heb “If this is your desire.” נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) refers here to the seat of the emotions and will. For other examples of this use of the word, see BDB 660-61 s.v.
14 tn Heb “If you are mine and you are listening to my voice.”
15 sn Jehu’s command is intentionally vague. Does he mean that they should bring the guardians (those who are “heads” over Ahab’s sons) for a meeting, or does he mean that they should bring the literal heads of Ahab’s sons with them? (So LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and some
16 tn Heb “great,” probably in wealth, position, and prestige.
17 tn Heb “runners.”
18 tn Heb “and they threw.” No object appears. According to M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 116), this is an idiom for leaving a corpse unburied.
19 tn Heb “and they came to the city of the house of Baal.” It seems unlikely that a literal city is meant. Some emend עִיר (’ir), “city,” to דְּבִיר (dÿvir) “holy place,” or suggest that עִיר is due to dittography of the immediately preceding עַד (’ad) “to.” Perhaps עִיר is here a technical term meaning “fortress” or, more likely, “inner room.”
20 tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”
21 sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.
22 tn Heb “the runners.”
23 tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”
24 tn Or “covenant.”
25 tn Heb “and she saw, and look.”
26 tn Or “conspiracy, conspiracy.”
27 tn Or “tore down.”
28 tn Or “images.”
29 tn The Hebrew construction translated “smashed…to bits” is emphatic. The adverbial infinitive absolute (הֵיטֵב [hetev], “well”) accompanying the Piel form of the verb שָׁבַר (shavar), “break,” suggests thorough demolition.
30 tn Heb “the priest.” Jehoiada’s name is added for clarification.
31 tn The object (“it all”) is supplied in the translation for clarification.
32 tn Heb “went up.”
33 tn Heb “the animal of the field.”
34 sn Judah is the thorn in the allegory. Amaziah’s success has deceived him into thinking he is on the same level as the major powers in the area (symbolized by the cedar). In reality he is not capable of withstanding an attack by a real military power such as Israel (symbolized by the wild animal).
35 tn Heb “and Menahem brought out the silver over Israel, over the prominent men of means, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver for each man.”
36 tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”
37 tn Heb “the city was breached.”
38 tn The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense.
39 sn The king’s garden is mentioned again in Neh 3:15 in conjunction with the pool of Siloam and the stairs that go down from the city of David. This would have been in the southern part of the city near the Tyropean Valley which agrees with the reference to the “two walls” which were probably the walls on the eastern and western hills.
40 sn Heb “toward the Arabah.” The Arabah was the rift valley north and south of the Dead Sea. Here the intention was undoubtedly to escape across the Jordan to Moab or Ammon. It appears from Jer 40:14; 41:15 that the Ammonites were known to harbor fugitives from the Babylonians.
41 tn The words “so as to give them…some assurance of safety” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
