Discovery Box2 Kings 7:9 
Context7:9 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. 1 If we wait until dawn, 2 we’ll be punished. 3 So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”
2 Kings 8:6
Context8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. 4 The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, 5 “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”
2 Kings 13:21
Context13:21 One day some men 6 were burying a man when they spotted 7 a raiding party. So they threw the dead man 8 into Elisha’s tomb. When the body 9 touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man 10 came to life and stood on his feet.
2 Kings 13:23
Context13:23 But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them. 11 He extended his favor to them 12 because of the promise he had made 13 to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day. 14
2 Kings 15:5
Context15:5 The Lord afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease 15 until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, 16 while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.
2 Kings 20:5
Context20:5 “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow 17 you will go up to the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 25:1
Context25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside 18 it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. 19
2 Kings 25:27
Context25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh 20 day of the twelfth month, 21 King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 22 King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 23 from prison.
1 tn Heb “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”
2 tn Heb “the light of the morning.”
3 tn Heb “punishment will find us.”
4 tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”
5 tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”
6 tn Heb “and it so happened [that] they.”
7 tn Heb “and look, they saw.”
8 tn Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “the man.”
10 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.
11 tn Or “showed them compassion.”
12 tn Heb “he turned to them.”
13 tn Heb “because of his covenant with.”
14 tn Heb “until now.”
15 tn Traditionally, “he was a leper.” But see the note at 5:1.
16 tn The precise meaning of בֵית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhofÿshit), “house of […?],” is uncertain. For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.
17 tn Heb “on the third day.”
18 tn Or “against.”
19 sn This would have been Jan 15, 588
20 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
21 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561
22 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
23 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.
