II Kings מְלָכִים ב

II Kings (Melachim Bet) carries the divided kingdom to its double catastrophe. Elijah goes up in the whirlwind and Elisha inherits a double portion of his spirit — the oil, the Shunammite's son, Naaman's leprosy, the siege of Samaria; then the pace of judgment quickens: Jehu's purge, Athaliah and Joash, Assyria's rising shadow, and in the seventeenth chapter Samaria falls and Israel is carried away. Judah is granted Hezekiah's deliverance and Josiah's reformation, but Manasseh's blood-guilt stands, and the book closes with the Temple burned, Zedekiah blinded, and Jehoiachin — a captive king raised above the kings in Babylon, the ember of hope. Tradition ascribes the book of Kings to the prophet Jeremiah. This volume presents the complete Hebrew text with English translation, a word-by-word interlinear layer with transliteration, roots, and gematria, and the classic commentaries of Rashi, Radak, Ralbag, Metzudat David, Metzudat Zion, Malbim, and Abarbanel, newly translated into English.