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 4:6

4:6 When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons, ¹  “Bring me another container.” But he answered her, “There are no more.” Then the olive oil stopped flowing.

2 Raja-raja 4:23

4:23 He said, “Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon ²  or the Sabbath.” She said, “Everything’s fine.” ³ 

2 Raja-raja 17:17

17:17 They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, ⁴  and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry. ⁵ 

2 Raja-raja 23:10

23:10 The king ⁶  ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech. ⁷ 

[4:6]  ¹ tn Heb “to her son.”

[4:23]  ² sn The new moon was a time of sacrifice and special feasts (Num 28:14; 1 Sam 20:5). Apparently it was a convenient time to visit a prophet. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.

[4:23]  ³ tn Heb “peace.”

[17:17]  ⁴ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.

[17:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “they sold themselves to doing what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

[23:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:10]  ⁷ sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.