19:19 Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.
1 tn Heb “and the man wounded him, wounding and bruising.”
2 tn Heb “and Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh.”
3 tn Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”
3 tn The Hebrew text has simply “he,” making it a bit unclear whether Jeroboam or Ahijah is the subject, but in the Hebrew word order Ahijah is the nearer antecedent, and this is followed by the present translation.
4 tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.