2 Raja-raja 4:1

Elisha Helps a Widow and Her Sons

4:1 Now a wife of one of the prophets ¹  appealed ²  to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. ³  Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”

2 Raja-raja 14:25

14:25 He restored the border of Israel from Lebo Hamath in the north to the sea of the Arabah in the south, ⁴  in accordance with the word of the Lord God of Israel announced through ⁵  his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

2 Raja-raja 17:34

17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship ⁶  the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave ⁷  the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

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. ⁸  If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” ⁹  So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents ¹⁰  of silver and thirty talents of gold.

[4:1]  ¹ tn Heb “a wife from among the wives of the sons of the prophets.”

[4:1]  ² tn Or “cried out.”

[4:1]  ³ tn Heb “your servant feared the Lord.” “Fear” refers here to obedience and allegiance, the products of healthy respect for the Lord’s authority.

[14:25]  ⁴ tn The phrases “in the north” and “in the south” are added in the translation for clarification.

[14:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “which he spoke by the hand of.”

[17:34]  ⁶ tn Heb “fear.”

[17:34]  ⁷ tn Heb “commanded.”

[18:14]  ⁸ tn Or “I have done wrong.”

[18:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

[18:14]  ¹⁰ 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.