2 Raja-raja 2:3

2:3 Some members of the prophetic guild ¹  in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” ²  He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

2 Raja-raja 2:5

2:5 Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

2 Raja-raja 2:9

2:9 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “What can I do for you, ³  before I am taken away from you?” Elisha answered, “May I receive a double portion of the prophetic spirit that energizes you.” ⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 2:14

2:14 He took the cloak that had fallen off Elijah, ⁵  hit the water with it, and said, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” When he hit the water, it divided and Elisha crossed over.

2 Raja-raja 3:26--4:1

3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, ⁶  he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack ⁷  the king of Edom, but they failed. 3:27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel, ⁸  so they broke off the attack ⁹  and returned to their homeland.

Elisha Helps a Widow and Her Sons

4:1 Now a wife of one of the prophets ¹⁰  appealed ¹¹  to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. ¹²  Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”

2 Raja-raja 4:29

4:29 Elisha ¹³  told Gehazi, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff, ¹⁴  and go! Don’t stop to exchange greetings with anyone! ¹⁵  Place my staff on the child’s face.”

2 Raja-raja 5:5

5:5 The king of Syria said, “Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman ¹⁶  went, taking with him ten talents ¹⁷  of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, ¹⁸  and ten suits of clothes.

2 Raja-raja 5:15

5:15 He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman ¹⁹  came and stood before him. He said, “For sure ²⁰  I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.”

2 Raja-raja 5:23

5:23 Naaman said, “Please accept two talents of silver. ²¹  He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi. ²² 

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!) ²³  Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.” ²⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 8:8-9

8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift ²⁵  and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, ²⁶  ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’” 8:9 So Hazael went to visit Elisha. ²⁷  He took along a gift, ²⁸  as well as ²⁹  forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said, “Your son, ³⁰  King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question, ³¹  ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Raja-raja 9:3

9:3 Take the container of olive oil, pour it over his head, and say, ‘This is what the Lord says, “I have designated ³²  you as king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and run away quickly!” ³³ 

2 Raja-raja 9:17

9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu’s troops approaching. ³⁴  He said, “I see troops!” ³⁵  Jehoram ordered, ³⁶  “Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, ‘Is everything all right?’” ³⁷ 

2 Raja-raja 11:2

11:2 So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked ³⁸  him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. ³⁹  So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution. ⁴⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 11:4

11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned ⁴¹  the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians ⁴²  and the royal bodyguard. ⁴³  He met with them ⁴⁴  in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement ⁴⁵  with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.

2 Raja-raja 11:9

11:9 The officers of the units of hundreds did just as ⁴⁶  Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath, and reported ⁴⁷  to Jehoiada the priest.

2 Raja-raja 11:19

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, ⁴⁸  and the king ⁴⁹  sat down on the royal throne.

2 Raja-raja 12:7

12:7 So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage.” ⁵⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 12:9

12:9 Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of ⁵¹  the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the Lord’s temple.

2 Raja-raja 14:14

14:14 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages. ⁵²  Then he went back to Samaria. ⁵³ 

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2 Raja-raja 18:32

18:32 until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, “The Lord will rescue us.”

2 Raja-raja 23:16

23:16 When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; ⁵⁴  he burned them on the altar and defiled it. This fulfilled the Lord’s announcement made by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. King Josiah ⁵⁵  turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this. ⁵⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 23:30

23:30 His servants transported his dead body ⁵⁷  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, ⁵⁸  and made him king in his father’s place.

2 Raja-raja 23:34

23:34 Pharaoh Necho made Josiah’s son Eliakim king in Josiah’s place, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. He took Jehoahaz to Egypt, where he died. ⁵⁹ 

2 Raja-raja 24:7

24:7 The king of Egypt did not march out from his land again, for the king of Babylon conquered all the territory that the king of Egypt had formerly controlled between the Brook of Egypt and the Euphrates River.

2 Raja-raja 24:12

24:12 King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered ⁶⁰  to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, ⁶¹  took Jehoiachin ⁶²  prisoner.

[2:3]  ¹ tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”

[2:3]  ² tn Heb “from your head.” The same expression occurs in v. 5.

[2:9]  ³ tn Heb “Ask! What can I do for you….?”

[2:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “May a double portion of your spirit come to me.”

[2:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him.” The wording is changed slightly in the translation for the sake of variety of expression (see v. 13).

[3:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him.”

[3:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”

[3:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “there was great anger against Israel.”

[3:27]  sn The meaning of this statement is uncertain, for the subject of the anger is not indicated. Except for two relatively late texts, the noun קֶצֶף (qetsef) refers to an outburst of divine anger. But it seems unlikely the Lord would be angry with Israel, for he placed his stamp of approval on the campaign (vv. 16-19). D. N. Freedman suggests the narrator, who obviously has a bias against the Omride dynasty, included this observation to show that the Lord would not allow the Israelite king to “have an undiluted victory” (as quoted in M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings [AB], 52, n. 8). Some suggest that the original source identified Chemosh the Moabite god as the subject and that his name was later suppressed by a conscientious scribe, but this proposal raises more questions than it answers. For a discussion of various views, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 47-48, 51-52.

[3:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “they departed from him.”

[4:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “a wife from among the wives of the sons of the prophets.”

[4:1]  ¹¹ tn Or “cried out.”

[4:1]  ¹² tn Heb “your servant feared the Lord.” “Fear” refers here to obedience and allegiance, the products of healthy respect for the Lord’s authority.

[4:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “take my staff in your hand.”

[4:29]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “If you meet a man, do not greet him with a blessing; if a man greets you with a blessing, do not answer.”

[5:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:5]  ¹⁷ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 750 pounds of silver (cf. NCV, NLT, CEV).

[5:5]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “six thousand gold […].” The unit of measure is not given in the Hebrew text. A number of English versions supply “pieces” (e.g., KJV, ASV, NAB, TEV) or “shekels” (e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[5:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:15]  ²⁰ tn Heb “look.”

[5:23]  ²¹ tn Heb “Be resolved and accept two talents.”

[5:23]  ²² tn Heb “before him.”

[7:13]  ²³ 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]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and let us send so we might see.”

[8:8]  ²⁵ tn The Hebrew text also has “in your hand.”

[8:8]  ²⁶ tn Heb “Inquire of the Lord through him, saying.”

[8:9]  ²⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:9]  ²⁸ tn The Hebrew text also has “in his hand.”

[8:9]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and.” It is possible that the conjunction is here explanatory, equivalent to English “that is.” In this case the forty camel loads constitute the “gift” and one should translate, “He took along a gift, consisting of forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus.”

[8:9]  ³⁰ sn The words “your son” emphasize the king’s respect for the prophet.

[8:9]  ³¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[9:3]  ³² tn Heb “anointed.”

[9:3]  ³³ tn Heb “and open the door and run away and do not delay.”

[9:17]  ³⁴ tn Heb “the quantity [of the men] of Jehu, when he approached.” Elsewhere שִׁפְעַה (shif’ah), “quantity,” is used of a quantity of camels (Isa 60:6) or horses (Ezek 26:10) and of an abundance of water (Job 22:11; 38:34).

[9:17]  ³⁵ tn The term שִׁפְעַת (shifat) appears to be a construct form of the noun, but no genitive follows.

[9:17]  ³⁶ tn Heb “said.”

[9:17]  ³⁷ tn Heb “Get a rider and send [him] to meet him and let him ask, ‘Is there peace?’”

[11:2]  ³⁸ tn Heb “stole.”

[11:2]  ³⁹ tn Heb “him and his nurse in an inner room of beds.” The verb is missing in the Hebrew text. The parallel passage in 2 Chr 22:11 has “and she put” at the beginning of the clause. M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 126) regard the Chronicles passage as an editorial attempt to clarify the difficulty of the original text. They prefer to take “him and his nurse” as objects of the verb “stole” and understand “in the bedroom” as the place where the royal descendants were executed. The phrase בַּחֲדַר הַמִּטּוֹת (bakhadar hammittot), “an inner room of beds,” is sometimes understood as referring to a bedroom (HALOT 293 s.v. חֶדֶר), though some prefer to see here a “room where the covers and cloths were kept for the beds (HALOT 573 s.v. מִטָּת). In either case, it may have been a temporary hideout, for v. 3 indicates that the child hid in the temple for six years.

[11:2]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “and they hid him from Athaliah and he was not put to death.” The subject of the plural verb (“they hid”) is probably indefinite.

[11:4]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”

[11:4]  ⁴² sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.

[11:4]  ⁴³ tn Heb “the runners.”

[11:4]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”

[11:4]  ⁴⁵ tn Or “covenant.”

[11:9]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “according to all that.”

[11:9]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “came.”

[11:19]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “the Gate of the Runners of the House of the King.”

[11:19]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:7]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers, because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”

[12:9]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “on the right side of the altar as a man enters.”

[14:14]  ⁵² tn Heb “the sons of the pledges.”

[14:14]  ⁵³ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[23:16]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “and he sent and took the bones from the tombs.”

[23:16]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “the king”; this has been specified as “King Josiah” in the translation for clarity (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).

[23:16]  ⁵⁶ tc The MT is much shorter than this. It reads, “according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.” The LXX has a much longer text at this point. It reads: “[which was proclaimed by the man of God] while Jeroboam stood by the altar at a celebration. Then he turned and saw the grave of the man of God [who proclaimed these words].” The extra material attested in the LXX was probably accidentally omitted in the Hebrew tradition when a scribe’s eye jumped from the first occurrence of the phrase “man of God” (which appears right before the extra material) and the second occurrence of the phrase (which appears at the end of the extra material).

[23:16]  sn This recalls the prophecy recorded in 1 Kgs 13:2.

[23:30]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “him, dead.”

[23:30]  ⁵⁸ tn Or “anointed him.”

[23:34]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “and he took Jehoahaz, and he came to Egypt and he died there.”

[24:12]  ⁶⁰ tn Heb “came out.”

[24:12]  ⁶¹ sn That is, the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, 597 b.c.

[24:12]  ⁶² tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.