Discovery Box2 Kings 8:1 
Context8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, 1 for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”
2 Kings 8:6
Context8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. 2 The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, 3 “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 9:21
Context9:21 Jehoram ordered, “Hitch up my chariot.” 4 When his chariot had been hitched up, 5 King Jehoram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah went out in their respective chariots 6 to meet Jehu. They met up with him 7 in the plot of land that had once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel.
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 11:18-19
Context11:18 All the people of the land went and demolished 10 the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols 11 to bits. 12 They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest 13 then placed guards at the Lord’s temple. 11:19 He took the officers of the units of hundreds, the Carians, the royal bodyguard, and all the people of land, and together they led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Gate of the Royal Bodyguard, 14 and the king 15 sat down on the royal throne.
2 Kings 15:5
Context15:5 The Lord afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease 16 until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, 17 while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.
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. 18 Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.
2 Kings 23:24
Context23:24 Josiah also got rid of 19 the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, 20 the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, 21 and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law 22 recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 23:30
Context23:30 His servants transported his dead body 23 from Megiddo in a chariot and brought it to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his tomb. The people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, poured olive oil on his head, 24 and made him king in his father’s place.
2 Kings 24:14
Context24:14 He deported all the residents of Jerusalem, including all the officials and all the soldiers (10,000 people in all). This included all the craftsmen and those who worked with metal. No one was left except for the poorest among the people of the land.
2 Kings 25:19
Context25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five 25 of the king’s advisers 26 who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens 27 for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.
2 Kings 25:24
Context25:24 Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. 28 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 “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”
2 tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”
3 tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”
4 tn The words “my chariot” are added for clarification.
5 tn Heb “and he hitched up his chariot.”
6 tn Heb “each in his chariot and they went out.”
7 tn Heb “they found him.”
8 tn Heb “and she saw, and look.”
9 tn Or “conspiracy, conspiracy.”
10 tn Or “tore down.”
11 tn Or “images.”
12 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.
13 tn Heb “the priest.” Jehoiada’s name is added for clarification.
14 tn Heb “the Gate of the Runners of the House of the King.”
15 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
16 tn Traditionally, “he was a leper.” But see the note at 5:1.
17 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.
18 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.”
19 tn Here בִּעֵר (bi’er) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.
20 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.
21 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
22 tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”
23 tn Heb “him, dead.”
24 tn Or “anointed him.”
25 tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”
26 tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”
27 tn Heb “the people of the land.”
28 tn The words “so as to give them…some assurance of safety” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
