2 Raja-raja 4:10

4:10 Let’s make a small private upper room ¹  and furnish it with ²  a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”

2 Raja-raja 4:31

4:31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha ³  he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

2 Raja-raja 4:42

Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People

4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet ⁴  – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. ⁵  Elisha ⁶  said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”

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 ⁷  went, taking with him ten talents ⁸  of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, ⁹  and ten suits of clothes.

2 Raja-raja 5:23

5:23 Naaman said, “Please accept two talents of silver. ¹⁰  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. ¹¹ 

2 Raja-raja 6:26

6:26 While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him, “Help us, my master, O king!”

2 Raja-raja 7:19

7:19 But the officer replied to the prophet, “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” ¹²  Elisha ¹³  said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!” ¹⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 9:14

9:14 Then Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.

Jehu the Assassin

Now Joram had been in Ramoth Gilead with the whole Israelite army, ¹⁵  guarding against an invasion by King Hazael of Syria.

2 Raja-raja 10:24

10:24 They went inside to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside. He had told them, “If any of the men inside get away, you will pay with your lives!” ¹⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 10:29

A Summary of Jehu’s Reign

10:29 However, Jehu did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam son of Nebat had encouraged Israel to commit; the golden calves remained in Bethel ¹⁷  and Dan. ¹⁸ 

2 Raja-raja 13:17

13:17 Elisha ¹⁹  said, “Open the east window,” and he did so. ²⁰  Elisha said, “Shoot!” and

he did so. ²¹  Elisha ²²  said, “This arrow symbolizes the victory the Lord will give you over Syria. ²³  You will annihilate Syria in Aphek!” ²⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 17:34

17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship ²⁵  the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave ²⁶  the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

2 Raja-raja 18:12

18:12 This happened because they did not obey ²⁷  the Lord their God and broke his agreement with them. ²⁸  They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded. ²⁹ 

2 Raja-raja 18:14

18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty. ³⁰  If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” ³¹  So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents ³²  of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Raja-raja 24:13

24:13 Nebuchadnezzar ³³  took from there all the riches in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace. He removed all the gold items which King Solomon of Israel had made for the Lord’s temple, just as the Lord had warned.

2 Raja-raja 25:4

25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls, ³⁴  and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. ³⁵  They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. ³⁶  (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. ³⁷ 

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 ³⁸  day of the twelfth month, ³⁹  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁴⁰  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ⁴¹  from prison.

[4:10]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “and let’s put there for him.”

[4:31]  ³ tn Heb “to meet him.”

[4:42]  ⁴ tn Heb “man of God.”

[4:42]  ⁵ tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.

[4:42]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:5]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ 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).

[5:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Be resolved and accept two talents.”

[5:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “before him.”

[7:19]  ¹² tn Heb “the Lord was making holes in the sky, could this thing be?” See the note at 7:2.

[7:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “you will not eat from there.”

[7:19]  tn In the Hebrew text vv. 18-19a are one lengthy sentence, “When the man of God spoke to the king…, the officer replied to the man of God, ‘Look…so soon?’” The translation divides this sentence up for stylistic reasons.

[9:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he and all Israel.”

[10:24]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “The man who escapes from the men whom I am bringing into your hands, [it will be] his life in place of his life.”

[10:29]  ¹⁷ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[10:29]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Except the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat which he caused Israel to commit, Jehu did not turn aside from after them – the golden calves which [were in] Bethel and which [were] in Dan.”

[13:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:17]  ²⁰ tn Heb “He opened [it].”

[13:17]  ²¹ tn Heb “and he shot.”

[13:17]  ²² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:17]  ²³ tn Heb “The arrow of victory of the Lord and the arrow of victory over Syria.”

[13:17]  ²⁴ tn Heb “you will strike down Syria in Aphek until destruction.”

[17:34]  ²⁵ tn Heb “fear.”

[17:34]  ²⁶ tn Heb “commanded.”

[18:12]  ²⁷ tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”

[18:12]  ²⁸ tn Heb “his covenant.”

[18:12]  ²⁹ tn Heb “all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded, and they did not listen and they did not act.”

[18:14]  ³⁰ tn Or “I have done wrong.”

[18:14]  ³¹ tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

[18:14]  ³² 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 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.

[24:13]  ³³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Nebuchadnezzar) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:4]  ³⁴ tn Heb “the city was breached.”

[25:4]  ³⁵ tn The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense.

[25:4]  ³⁶ sn The king’s garden is mentioned again in Neh 3:15 in conjunction with the pool of Siloam and the stairs that go down from the city of David. This would have been in the southern part of the city near the Tyropean Valley which agrees with the reference to the “two walls” which were probably the walls on the eastern and western hills.

[25:4]  ³⁷ sn Heb “toward the Arabah.” The Arabah was the rift valley north and south of the Dead Sea. Here the intention was undoubtedly to escape across the Jordan to Moab or Ammon. It appears from Jer 40:14; 41:15 that the Ammonites were known to harbor fugitives from the Babylonians.

[25:27]  ³⁸ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

[25:27]  ³⁹ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:27]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[25:27]  ⁴¹ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.