2 Raja-raja 1:13

1:13 The king ¹  sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell ²  on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, “Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

2 Raja-raja 1:16

1:16 Elijah ³  said to the king, ⁴  “This is what the Lord says, ‘You sent messengers to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. You must think there is no God in Israel from whom you can seek an oracle! ⁵  Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.’” ⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 5:7

5:7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill or restore life? Why does he ask me to cure a man of his skin disease? ⁷  Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!” ⁸ 

2 Raja-raja 5:20

5:20 Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought, ⁹  “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. ¹⁰  As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.”

2 Raja-raja 7:9

7:9 Then they said to one another, “It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone. ¹¹  If we wait until dawn, ¹²  we’ll be punished. ¹³  So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”

2 Raja-raja 8:6

8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. ¹⁴  The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, ¹⁵  “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

2 Raja-raja 10:5

10:5 So the palace supervisor, ¹⁶  the city commissioner, ¹⁷  the leaders, ¹⁸  and the guardians sent this message to Jehu, “We are your subjects! ¹⁹  Whatever you say, we will do. We will not make anyone king. Do what you consider proper.” ²⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 21:7-8

21:7 He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. ²¹  21:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, ²²  provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law my servant Moses ordered them to obey.”

2 Raja-raja 23:35

23:35 Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh the required amount of silver and gold, but to meet Pharaoh’s demands Jehoiakim had to tax the land. He collected an assessed amount from each man among the people of the land in order to pay Pharaoh Necho. ²³ 

2 Raja-raja 25:4

25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls, ²⁴  and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. ²⁵  They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. ²⁶  (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. ²⁷ 

[1:13]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:13]  ² tn Heb “went up and approached and kneeled.”

[1:16]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “Because you sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is there no God in Israel to inquire of his word?”

[1:16]  ⁶ sn For the third time in this chapter we read the Lord’s sarcastic question to king and the accompanying announcement of judgment. The repetition emphasizes one of the chapter’s main themes. Israel’s leaders should seek guidance from their own God, not a pagan deity, for Israel’s sovereign God is the one who controls life and death.

[5:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “Am I God, killing and restoring life, that this one sends to me to cure a man from his skin disease?” In the Hebrew text this is one lengthy rhetorical question, which has been divided up in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[5:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “Indeed, know and see that he is seeking an occasion with respect to me.”

[5:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “said” (i.e., to himself).

[5:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Look, my master spared this Syrian Naaman by not taking from his hand what he brought.”

[7:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”

[7:9]  ¹² tn Heb “the light of the morning.”

[7:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “punishment will find us.”

[8:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

[8:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

[10:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the one who was over the house.”

[10:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the one who was over the city.”

[10:5]  ¹⁸ tn Or “elders.”

[10:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “servants.”

[10:5]  ²⁰ tn Heb “Do what is good in your eyes.”

[21:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name perpetually (or perhaps “forever”).”

[21:8]  ²² tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I gave to their fathers.”

[23:35]  ²³ tn Heb “And the silver and the gold Jehoiakim gave to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the silver at the command of Pharaoh, [from] each according to his tax he collected the silver and the gold, from the people of the land, to give to Pharaoh Necho.”

[25:4]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the city was breached.”

[25:4]  ²⁵ 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]  ²⁶ 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]  ²⁷ 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.