2 Raja-raja 2:16

2:16 They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord ¹  may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha ²  replied, “Don’t send them out.”

2 Raja-raja 7:9

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. ³  If we wait until dawn, ⁴  we’ll be punished. ⁵  So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”

2 Raja-raja 7:13

7:13 One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!) ⁶  Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.” ⁷ 

2 Raja-raja 8:1

Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman

8:1 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, ⁸  for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

2 Raja-raja 9:15

9:15 But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ⁹  when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. ¹⁰  Jehu told his supporters, ¹¹  “If you really want me to be king, ¹²  then don’t let anyone escape from the city to go and warn Jezreel.”

2 Raja-raja 15:29

15:29 During Pekah’s reign over Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, ¹³  Gilead, and Galilee, including all the territory of Naphtali. He deported the people ¹⁴  to Assyria.

2 Raja-raja 16:14

16:14 He moved the bronze altar that stood in the Lord’s presence from the front of the temple (between the altar and the Lord’s temple) and put it on the north side of the new ¹⁵  altar.

2 Raja-raja 16:17

16:17 King Ahaz took off the frames of the movable stands, and removed the basins from them. He took “The Sea” ¹⁶  down from the bronze bulls that supported it ¹⁷  and put it on the pavement.

2 Raja-raja 17:6

17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel ¹⁸  to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Raja-raja 17:21

17:21 He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. ¹⁹  Jeroboam drove Israel away ²⁰  from the Lord and encouraged them to commit a serious sin. ²¹ 

2 Raja-raja 21:16

21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, ²²  in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. ²³ 

2 Raja-raja 25:25

25:25 But in the seventh month ²⁴  Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, ²⁵  came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, ²⁶  as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.

2 Raja-raja 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ²⁷  day of the twelfth month, ²⁸  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ²⁹  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ³⁰  from prison.

[2:16]  ¹ tn Or “the spirit of the Lord.”

[2:16]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:9]  ³ tn Heb “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”

[7:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “the light of the morning.”

[7:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “punishment will find us.”

[7:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.” The MT is dittographic here; the words “that remain in it. Look they are like all the people of Israel” have been accidentally repeated. The original text read, “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.”

[7:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “and let us send so we might see.”

[8:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”

[9:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

[9:15]  ¹⁰ sn See 2 Kgs 8:28-29a.

[9:15]  ¹¹ tn The words “his supporters” are added for clarification.

[9:15]  ¹² 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.

[15:29]  ¹³ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[15:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “them.”

[16:14]  ¹⁵ tn The word “new” is added in the translation for clarification.

[16:17]  ¹⁶ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.

[16:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “that [were] under it.”

[17:6]  ¹⁸ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

[17:21]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king.”

[17:21]  ²⁰ tc The consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the verb is נָדָא (nada’), an alternate form of נָדָה (nadah), “push away.” The marginal reading (Qere) assumes the verb נָדָח (nadakh), “drive away.”

[17:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “a great sin.”

[21:16]  ²² tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”

[21:16]  ²³ tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

[25:25]  ²⁴ sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; Jer 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; Jer 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (Jer 40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (Jer 52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).

[25:25]  ²⁵ tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”

[25:25]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”

[25:27]  ²⁷ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

[25:27]  ²⁸ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:27]  ²⁹ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[25:27]  ³⁰ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.