2 Raja-raja 3:22

3:22 When they got up early the next morning, the sun was shining on the water. To the Moabites, who were some distance away, the water looked red like blood.

2 Raja-raja 4:15

4:15 Elisha told him, “Ask her to come here.” ¹  So he did so ²  and she came and stood in the doorway. ³ 

2 Raja-raja 5:25

5:25 When he came and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” He answered, “Your servant hasn’t been anywhere.”

2 Raja-raja 9:13

9:13 Each of them quickly took off his cloak and they spread them out at Jehu’s ⁴  feet on the steps. ⁵  The trumpet was blown ⁶  and they shouted, “Jehu is ⁷  king!”

2 Raja-raja 11:16

11:16 They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. ⁸  There she was executed.

2 Raja-raja 17:8

17:8 they observed the practices ⁹  of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel. ¹⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 22:10

22:10 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

[4:15]  ¹ tn Heb “Call for her.”

[4:15]  ² tn Heb “and he called her.”

[4:15]  ³ tn Heb “and he called for her and she stood in the door.”

[9:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they hurried and took, each one his garment, and they placed [them] beneath him on the bone [?] of the steps.” The precise nuance of גֶרֶם (gerem), “bone,” is unclear. Some suggest the nuance “bare” here; it may be a technical architectural term in this context.

[9:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “they blew the trumpet.” This has been translated as a passive to avoid the implication that the same ones who shouted had all blown trumpets.

[9:13]  ⁷ tn Or “has become.”

[11:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “and they placed hands on her, and she went the way of the entrance of the horses [into] the house of the king.”

[17:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “walked in the customs.”

[17:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and [the practices of] the kings of Israel which they did.”