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II Kings: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

II Kings is the chronicle of the raging conflicts that tore the United Kingdom of Israel apart, creating the rival nations of Israel to the north and Judah to the south. It tells of the time of the great prophecies of Elijah and Elisha, and of the legendary conquerors of not only the Jews, but the whole of the Middle East—Sennacherib, Hazael, Tiglath-pileser III, Nebuchadnezzar, and Shalmaneser. ...

2 19 The men of the city said to Elisha, “The city’s location is a good one, as my lord can see, but the water is bad and the land miscarries.” 20 He said, “Bring me a new flask, and put salt in it”; and they brought (it) to him. 21 Then he went out to the water source and threw the salt into it, and said, “Thus says YHWH, ‘I have healed these waters. Death and miscarriage shall issue from there no longer.’ ” 22 So the water has remained healeda
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