2 Raja-raja 2:16

2:16 They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord ¹  may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha ²  replied, “Don’t send them out.”

2 Raja-raja 4:10

4:10 Let’s make a small private upper room ³  and furnish it with ⁴  a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”

2 Raja-raja 5:23

5:23 Naaman said, “Please accept two talents of silver. ⁵  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. ⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 10:25

10:25 When he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Jehu ordered the royal guard ⁷  and officers, “Come in and strike them down! Don’t let any escape!” So the royal guard and officers struck them down with the sword and left their bodies lying there. ⁸  Then they entered the inner sanctuary of the temple of Baal. ⁹ 

2 Raja-raja 16:7

16:7 Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your dependent. ¹⁰  March up and rescue me from the power ¹¹  of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked ¹²  me.”

2 Raja-raja 19:28

19:28 Because you rage against me,

and the uproar you create has reached my ears; ¹³ 

I will put my hook in your nose, ¹⁴ 

and my bridle between your lips,

and I will lead you back the way

you came.”

[2:16]  ¹ tn Or “the spirit of the Lord.”

[2:16]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:10]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Heb “and let’s put there for him.”

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

[5:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “before him.”

[10:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “runners.”

[10:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “and they threw.” No object appears. According to M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 116), this is an idiom for leaving a corpse unburied.

[10:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “and they came to the city of the house of Baal.” It seems unlikely that a literal city is meant. Some emend עִיר (’ir), “city,” to דְּבִיר (dÿvir) “holy place,” or suggest that עִיר is due to dittography of the immediately preceding עַד (’ad) “to.” Perhaps עִיר is here a technical term meaning “fortress” or, more likely, “inner room.”

[16:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “son.” Both terms (“servant” and “son”) reflect Ahaz’s subordinate position as Tiglath-pileser’s subject.

[16:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “hand, palm.”

[16:7]  ¹² tn Heb “who have arisen against.”

[19:28]  ¹³ tc Heb “and your complacency comes up into my ears.” The parallelism is improved if שַׁאֲנַנְךְ (sha’anankh), “your complacency,” is emended to שַׁאֲוַנְךְ (sha’avankh), “your uproar.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 237-38.

[19:28]  ¹⁴ sn The word picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.