2 Raja-raja 2:1

Elijah Makes a Swift Departure

2:1 Just before ¹  the Lord took Elijah up to heaven in a windstorm, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.

2 Raja-raja 8:2

8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said. ²  She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

2 Raja-raja 13:6

13:6 But they did not repudiate ³  the sinful ways of the family ⁴  of Jeroboam, who encouraged Israel to sin; they continued in those sins. ⁵  There was even an Asherah pole ⁶  standing in Samaria.

[2:1]  ¹ tn Or “when.”

[8:2]  ² tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”

[13:6]  ³ tn Heb “they did not turn away from.”

[13:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “house.”

[13:6]  ⁵ tc Heb “in it he walked.” The singular verb (הָלַךְ, halakh) is probably due to an error of haplography and should be emended to the plural (הָלְכּוּ, halÿku). Note that a vav immediately follows (on the form וְגַם, vÿgam).

[13:6]  ⁶ tn Or “an image of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “the Asherah”; NCV “the Asherah idol.”

[13:6]  sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).