2 Raja-raja 4:8

Elisha Gives Life to a Boy

4:8 One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent ¹  woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. ²  So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal. ³ 

2 Raja-raja 4:10

4:10 Let’s make a small private upper room ⁴  and furnish it with ⁵  a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”

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, ⁶  for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

2 Raja-raja 9:27

9:27 When King Ahaziah of Judah saw what happened, he took off ⁷  up the road to Beth Haggan. Jehu chased him and ordered, “Shoot him too.” They shot him while he was driving his chariot up the ascent of Gur near Ibleam. ⁸  He fled to Megiddo ⁹  and died there.

2 Raja-raja 10:23

10:23 Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went to the temple of Baal. Jehu ¹⁰  said to the servants of Baal, “Make sure there are no servants of the Lord here with you; there must be only servants of Baal.” ¹¹ 

2 Raja-raja 10:25

10:25 When he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Jehu ordered the royal guard ¹²  and officers, “Come in and strike them down! Don’t let any escape!” So the royal guard and officers struck them down with the sword and left their bodies lying there. ¹³  Then they entered the inner sanctuary of the temple of Baal. ¹⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 19:26

19:26 Their residents are powerless, ¹⁵ 

they are terrified and ashamed.

They are as short-lived as plants in the field,

or green vegetation. ¹⁶ 

They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops ¹⁷ 

when it is scorched by the east wind. ¹⁸ 

2 Raja-raja 23:19

23:19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. ¹⁹  He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. ²⁰ 

[4:8]  ¹ tn Heb “great,” perhaps “wealthy.”

[4:8]  ² tn Or “she urged him to eat some food.”

[4:8]  ³ tn Or “he would turn aside there to eat some food.”

[4:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “a small upper room of a wall”; according to HALOT 832 s.v. עֲלִיָּה, this refers to “a fully walled upper room.”

[4:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “and let’s put there for him.”

[8:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”

[9:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “and Ahaziah king of Judah saw and fled.”

[9:27]  ⁸ tn After Jehu’s order (“kill him too”), the MT has simply, “to the chariot in the ascent of Gur which is near Ibleam.” The main verb in the clause, “they shot him” (וַיִּכְהוּ, vayyikhhu), has been accidentally omitted by virtual haplography/homoioteleuton. Note that the immediately preceding form הַכֻּהוּ (hakkuhu), “shoot him,” ends with the same suffix.

[9:27]  ⁹ map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.

[10:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Search carefully and observe so that there are not here with you any servants of the Lord, only the servants of Baal.”

[10:25]  ¹² tn Heb “runners.”

[10:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they threw.” No object appears. According to M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 116), this is an idiom for leaving a corpse unburied.

[10:25]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and they came to the city of the house of Baal.” It seems unlikely that a literal city is meant. Some emend עִיר (’ir), “city,” to דְּבִיר (dÿvir) “holy place,” or suggest that עִיר is due to dittography of the immediately preceding עַד (’ad) “to.” Perhaps עִיר is here a technical term meaning “fortress” or, more likely, “inner room.”

[19:26]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “short of hand.”

[19:26]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “they are plants in the field and green vegetation.” The metaphor emphasizes how short-lived these seemingly powerful cities really were. See Ps 90:5-6; Isa 40:6-8, 24.

[19:26]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “[they are] grass on the rooftops.” See the preceding note.

[19:26]  ¹⁸ tc The Hebrew text has “scorched before the standing grain” (perhaps meaning “before it reaches maturity”), but it is preferable to emend קָמָה (qamah), “standing grain,” to קָדִים (qadim), “east wind” (with the support of 1Q Isa^a in Isa 37:27).

[23:19]  ¹⁹ tc Heb “which the kings of Israel had made, angering.” The object has been accidentally omitted in the MT. It appears in the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate versions.

[23:19]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”

[23:19]  map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.