2 Raja-raja 1:10
Konteks1:10 Elijah replied to the captain, 1 “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down 2 from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.
2 Raja-raja 1:12
Konteks1:12 Elijah replied to them, 3 “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire from God 4 came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.
2 Raja-raja 5:1
Konteks5:1 Now Naaman, the commander of the king of Syria’s army, was esteemed and respected by his master, 5 for through him the Lord had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease. 6
2 Raja-raja 7:10
Konteks7:10 So they went and called out to the gatekeepers 7 of the city. They told them, “We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn’t even hear a man’s voice. 8 But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up.” 9
2 Raja-raja 9:36
Konteks9:36 When they went back and told him, he said, “The Lord’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, 10 ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.
2 Raja-raja 10:9
Konteks10:9 In the morning he went out and stood there. Then he said to all the people, “You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all of these men?
2 Raja-raja 18:4
Konteks18:4 He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. 11 He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time 12 the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan. 13
2 Raja-raja 18:21
Konteks18:21 Now look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If a man leans for support on it, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him.
[1:10] 1 tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”
[1:10] 2 tn Wordplay contributes to the irony here. The king tells Elijah to “come down” (Hebrew יָרַד, yarad), but Elijah calls fire down (יָרַד) on the arrogant king’s officer.
[1:12] 3 tc Two medieval Hebrew
[1:12] 4 tn Or “intense fire.” The divine name may be used idiomatically to emphasize the intensity of the fire. Whether one translates אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) here as a proper name or idiomatically, this addition to the narrative (the name is omitted in the first panel, v. 10b) emphasizes the severity of the judgment and is appropriate given the more intense command delivered by the king to the prophet in this panel.
[5:1] 5 tn Heb “was a great man before his master and lifted up with respect to the face.”
[5:1] 6 tn For a discussion of מְצֹרָע (mÿtsora’), traditionally translated “leprous,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 63. Naaman probably had a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy/Hansen’s disease.
[7:10] 7 tn The MT has a singular form (“gatekeeper”), but the context suggests a plural. The pronoun that follows (“them”) is plural and a plural noun appears in v. 11. The Syriac Peshitta and the Targum have the plural here.
[7:10] 8 tn Heb “and, look, there was no man or voice of a man there.”
[7:10] 9 tn Heb “but the horses are tied up and the donkeys are tied up and the tents are as they were.”
[9:36] 10 tn Heb “It is the word of the
[18:4] 11 tn The term is singular in the MT but plural in the LXX and other ancient versions. It is also possible to regard the singular as a collective singular, especially in the context of other plural items.
[18:4] sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).
[18:4] 12 tn Heb “until those days.”
[18:4] 13 tn In Hebrew the name sounds like the phrase נְחַשׁ הַנְּחֹשֶׁת (nÿkhash hannÿkhoshet), “bronze serpent.”
