2 Raja-raja 2:5

2:5 Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

2 Raja-raja 4:31

4:31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha ¹  he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

2 Raja-raja 5:5

5:5 The king of Syria said, “Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman ²  went, taking with him ten talents ³  of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, ⁴  and ten suits of clothes.

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? ⁵  Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!” ⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 5:26

5:26 Elisha ⁷  replied, “I was there in spirit when a man turned and got down from his chariot to meet you. ⁸  This is not the proper time to accept silver or to accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, cattle, and male and female servants. ⁹ 

2 Raja-raja 9:6

9:6 So Jehu ¹⁰  got up and went inside. Then the prophet ¹¹  poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I have designated you as king over the Lord’s people Israel.

2 Raja-raja 9:17

9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu’s troops approaching. ¹²  He said, “I see troops!” ¹³  Jehoram ordered, ¹⁴  “Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, ‘Is everything all right?’” ¹⁵ 

2 Raja-raja 10:24

10:24 They went inside to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside. He had told them, “If any of the men inside get away, you will pay with your lives!” ¹⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 11:18

11:18 All the people of the land went and demolished ¹⁷  the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols ¹⁸  to bits. ¹⁹  They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest ²⁰  then placed guards at the Lord’s temple.

2 Raja-raja 13:19

13:19 The prophet ²¹  got angry at him and said, “If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! ²²  But now, you will defeat Syria only three times.”

2 Raja-raja 13:23

13:23 But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them. ²³  He extended his favor to them ²⁴  because of the promise he had made ²⁵  to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day. ²⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 14:6

14:6 But he did not execute the sons of the assassins. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, ²⁷  “Fathers must not be put to death for what their sons do, ²⁸  and sons must not be put to death for what their fathers do. ²⁹  A man must be put to death only for his own sin.” ³⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 17:35

17:35 The Lord made an agreement ³¹  with them ³²  and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them.

2 Raja-raja 18:27

18:27 But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. ³³  His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.” ³⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 18:31

18:31 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. ³⁵  Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

2 Raja-raja 19:29

19:29 ³⁶ This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: ³⁷  This year you will eat what grows wild, ³⁸  and next year ³⁹  what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce. ⁴⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 20:5

20:5 “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow ⁴¹  you will go up to the Lord’s temple.

2 Raja-raja 21:3

21:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ⁴²  and worshiped ⁴³  them.

2 Raja-raja 25:17

25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet ⁴⁴  high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet ⁴⁵  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

[4:31]  ¹ tn Heb “to meet him.”

[5:5]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:5]  ³ 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 750 pounds of silver (cf. NCV, NLT, CEV).

[5:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “six thousand gold […].” The unit of measure is not given in the Hebrew text. A number of English versions supply “pieces” (e.g., KJV, ASV, NAB, TEV) or “shekels” (e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[5:7]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Heb “Indeed, know and see that he is seeking an occasion with respect to me.”

[5:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “Did not my heart go as a man turned from his chariot to meet you?” The rhetorical question emphasizes that he was indeed present in “heart” (or “spirit”) and was very much aware of what Gehazi had done. In the MT the interrogative particle has been accidentally omitted before the negative particle.

[5:26]  ⁹ tn In the MT the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question, “Is this the time…?” It expects an emphatic negative response.

[9:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:17]  ¹² tn Heb “the quantity [of the men] of Jehu, when he approached.” Elsewhere שִׁפְעַה (shif’ah), “quantity,” is used of a quantity of camels (Isa 60:6) or horses (Ezek 26:10) and of an abundance of water (Job 22:11; 38:34).

[9:17]  ¹³ tn The term שִׁפְעַת (shifat) appears to be a construct form of the noun, but no genitive follows.

[9:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “said.”

[9:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Get a rider and send [him] to meet him and let him ask, ‘Is there peace?’”

[10:24]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “The man who escapes from the men whom I am bringing into your hands, [it will be] his life in place of his life.”

[11:18]  ¹⁷ tn Or “tore down.”

[11:18]  ¹⁸ tn Or “images.”

[11:18]  ¹⁹ tn The Hebrew construction translated “smashed…to bits” is emphatic. The adverbial infinitive absolute (הֵיטֵב [hetev], “well”) accompanying the Piel form of the verb שָׁבַר (shavar), “break,” suggests thorough demolition.

[11:18]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the priest.” Jehoiada’s name is added for clarification.

[13:19]  ²¹ tn Heb “man of God.”

[13:19]  ²² tn Heb “[It was necessary] to strike five or six times, then you would strike down Syria until destruction.” On the syntax of the infinitive construct, see GKC 349 §114.k.

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

[13:23]  ²⁴ tn Heb “he turned to them.”

[13:23]  ²⁵ tn Heb “because of his covenant with.”

[13:23]  ²⁶ tn Heb “until now.”

[14:6]  ²⁷ tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded, saying.”

[14:6]  ²⁸ tn Heb “on account of sons.”

[14:6]  ²⁹ tn Heb “on account of fathers.”

[14:6]  ³⁰ sn This law is recorded in Deut 24:16.

[17:35]  ³¹ tn Or “covenant.”

[17:35]  ³² sn That is, the descendants of Jacob/Israel (see v. 35b).

[18:27]  ³³ tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.

[18:27]  ³⁴ tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”

[18:27]  sn The chief adviser alludes to the horrible reality of siege warfare, when the starving people in the besieged city would resort to eating and drinking anything to stay alive.

[18:31]  ³⁵ tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”

[19:29]  ³⁶ tn At this point the word concerning the king of Assyria (vv. 21-28) ends and the Lord again directly addresses Hezekiah and the people (see v. 20).

[19:29]  ³⁷ tn Heb “and this is your sign.” In this case the אוֹת (’ot), “sign,” is a future confirmation of God’s intervention designated before the actual intervention takes place. For similar “signs” see Exod 3:12 and Isa 7:14-25.

[19:29]  ³⁸ sn This refers to crops that grew up on their own (that is, without cultivation) from the seed planted in past years.

[19:29]  ³⁹ tn Heb “and in the second year.”

[19:29]  ⁴⁰ tn The four plural imperatival verb forms in v. 29b are used rhetorically. The Lord commands the people to plant, harvest, etc. to emphasize the certainty of restored peace and prosperity. See IBHS 572 §34.4.c.

[20:5]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “on the third day.”

[21:3]  ⁴² sn See the note at 2 Kgs 17:16.

[21:3]  ⁴³ tn Or “served.”

[25:17]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

[25:17]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”