2 Raja-raja 3:26

3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, ¹  he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack ²  the king of Edom, but they failed.

2 Raja-raja 4:2

4:2 Elisha said to her, “What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil.”

2 Raja-raja 4:5

4:5 So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.

2 Raja-raja 6:11

6:11 This made the king of Syria upset. ³  So he summoned his advisers ⁴  and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.” ⁵ 

2 Raja-raja 6:25

6:25 Samaria’s food supply ran out. ⁶  They laid siege to it so long that ⁷  a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver ⁸  and a quarter of a kab ⁹  of dove’s droppings ¹⁰  for five shekels of silver. ¹¹ 

2 Raja-raja 6:31

6:31 Then he said, “May God judge me severely ¹²  if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!” ¹³ 

2 Raja-raja 7:18

7:18 The prophet told the king, “Two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of finely milled flour for a shekel; this will happen about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria.”

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 ¹⁴  you as king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and run away quickly!” ¹⁵ 

2 Raja-raja 9:11

9:11 When Jehu rejoined ¹⁶  his master’s servants, they ¹⁷  asked him, “Is everything all right? ¹⁸  Why did this madman visit you?” He replied, “Ah, it’s not important. You know what kind of man he is and the kinds of things he says.” ¹⁹ 

2 Raja-raja 9:22

9:22 When Jehoram saw Jehu, he asked, “Is everything all right, Jehu?” He replied, “How can everything be all right as long as your mother Jezebel promotes idolatry and pagan practices?” ²⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 11:5-6

11:5 He ordered them, “This is what you must do. One third of the unit that is on duty during the Sabbath will guard the royal palace. 11:6 Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation ²¹  Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard. ²²  You will take turns guarding the palace. ²³ 

2 Raja-raja 13:2

13:2 He did evil in the sight of ²⁴  the Lord. He continued in ²⁵  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins. ²⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 16:3

16:3 He followed in the footsteps of ²⁷  the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, ²⁸  a horrible sin practiced by the nations ²⁹  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

2 Raja-raja 17:32

17:32 At the same time they worshiped ³⁰  the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. ³¹ 

2 Raja-raja 20:9

20:9 Isaiah replied, “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said. Do you want the shadow to move ahead ten steps or to go back ten steps?” ³² 

2 Raja-raja 20:20

20:20 The rest of the events of Hezekiah’s reign and all his accomplishments, including how he built a pool and conduit to bring ³³  water into the city, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ³⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 21:2

21:2 He did evil in the sight of ³⁵  the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations ³⁶  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

2 Raja-raja 22:17

22:17 This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices ³⁷  to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made. ³⁸  My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!’”

2 Raja-raja 23:26

23:26 Yet the Lord’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done. ³⁹ 

[3:26]  ¹ tn Heb “and the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him.”

[3:26]  ² tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”

[6:11]  ³ tn Heb “and the heart of the king of Syria was stirred up over this thing.”

[6:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “servants.”

[6:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “Will you not tell me who among us [is] for the king of Israel?” The sarcastic rhetorical question expresses the king’s suspicion.

[6:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”

[6:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”

[6:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

[6:25]  ⁹ sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately one quart.

[6:25]  ¹⁰ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) reads, “dove dung” (חֲרֵייוֹנִים, khareyonim), while the marginal reading (Qere) has “discharge” (דִּבְיוֹנִים, divyonim). Based on evidence from Akkadian, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 79) suggest that “dove’s dung” was a popular name for the inedible husks of seeds.

[6:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

[6:31]  ¹² tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”

[6:31]  ¹³ tn Heb “if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

[9:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “anointed.”

[9:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and open the door and run away and do not delay.”

[9:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “went out to.”

[9:11]  ¹⁷ tc The MT has the singular, “he said,” but many witnesses correctly read the plural.

[9:11]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Is there peace?”

[9:11]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “He said, ‘You, you know the man and his thoughts.’” Jehu tries to deflect their question by reminding them that the man is an eccentric individual who says strange things. His reply suggests that the man said nothing of importance. The translation seeks to bring out the tone and intent of Jehu’s reply.

[9:22]  ²⁰ tn Heb “How [can there be] peace as long as the adulterous acts of Jezebel your mother and her many acts of sorcery [continue]?” In this instance “adulterous acts” is employed metaphorically for idolatry. As elsewhere in the OT, worshiping other gods is viewed as spiritual adultery and unfaithfulness to the one true God. The phrase “many acts of sorcery” could be taken literally, for Jezebel undoubtedly utilized pagan divination practices, but the phrase may be metaphorical, pointing to her devotion to pagan customs in general.

[11:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “the gate of Sur” (followed by many English versions) but no such gate is mentioned elsewhere in the OT. The parallel account in 2 Chr 23:5 has “Foundation Gate.” סוּר (sur), “Sur,” may be a corruption of יְסוֹד (yÿsod) “foundation,” involving in part dalet-resh confusion.

[11:6]  ²² tn Heb “the runners.”

[11:6]  ²³ tn The meaning of מַסָּח (massakh) is not certain. The translation above, rather than understanding it as a genitive modifying “house,” takes it as an adverb describing how the groups will guard the palace. See HALOT 605 s.v. מַסָּח for the proposed meaning “alternating” (i.e., “in turns”).

[13:2]  ²⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[13:2]  ²⁵ tn Heb “walked after.”

[13:2]  ²⁶ tn Heb “he did not turn aside from it.”

[16:3]  ²⁷ tn Heb “he walked in the way of.”

[16:3]  ²⁸ sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

[16:3]  ²⁹ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[17:32]  ³⁰ tn Heb “feared.”

[17:32]  ³¹ tn Heb “and they appointed for themselves from their whole people priests for the high places and they were serving for them in the house[s] of the high places.”

[20:9]  ³² tn The Hebrew הָלַךְ (halakh, a perfect), “it has moved ahead,” should be emended to הֲיֵלֵךְ (hayelekh, an imperfect with interrogative he [ה] prefixed), “shall it move ahead.”

[20:20]  ³³ tn Heb “and he brought.”

[20:20]  ³⁴ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Hezekiah, and all his strength, and how he made a pool and a conduit and brought water to the city, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[21:2]  ³⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[21:2]  ³⁶ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[22:17]  ³⁷ tn Or “burned incense.”

[22:17]  ³⁸ tn Heb “angering me with all the work of their hands.” The translation assumes that this refers to idols they have manufactured (note the preceding reference to “other gods,” as well as 19:18). However, it is possible that this is a general reference to their sinful practices, in which case one might translate, “angering me by all the things they do.”

[23:26]  ³⁹ tn Heb “Yet the Lord did not turn away from the fury of his great anger, which raged against Judah, on account of all the infuriating things by which Manasseh had made him angry.”