2 Raja-raja 1:12

1:12 Elijah replied to them, ¹  “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire from God ²  came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Raja-raja 6:15

6:15 The prophet’s ³  attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha, ⁴  “Oh no, my master! What will we do?”

2 Raja-raja 13:23

13:23 But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them. ⁵  He extended his favor to them ⁶  because of the promise he had made ⁷  to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day. ⁸ 

2 Raja-raja 17:23

17:23 Finally ⁹  the Lord rejected Israel ¹⁰  just as he had warned he would do ¹¹  through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

2 Raja-raja 25:1

25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside ¹²  it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. ¹³ 

2 Raja-raja 25:25

25:25 But in the seventh month ¹⁴  Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, ¹⁵  came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, ¹⁶  as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.

[1:12]  ¹ tc Two medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Syriac Peshitta have the singular “to him.”

[1:12]  ² tn Or “intense fire.” The divine name may be used idiomatically to emphasize the intensity of the fire. Whether one translates אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) here as a proper name or idiomatically, this addition to the narrative (the name is omitted in the first panel, v. 10b) emphasizes the severity of the judgment and is appropriate given the more intense command delivered by the king to the prophet in this panel.

[6:15]  ³ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

[6:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “his young servant said to him.”

[13:23]  ⁵ tn Or “showed them compassion.”

[13:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “he turned to them.”

[13:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “because of his covenant with.”

[13:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “until now.”

[17:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “until.”

[17:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”

[17:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “just as he said.”

[25:1]  ¹² tn Or “against.”

[25:1]  ¹³ sn This would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

[25:25]  ¹⁴ sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; Jer 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; Jer 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (Jer 40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (Jer 52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).

[25:25]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”

[25:25]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”