2 Kings 1:10

1:10 Elijah replied to the captain, ¹  “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down ²  from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Kings 1:12

1:12 Elijah replied to them, ³  “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire from God ⁴  came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Kings 1:14

1:14 Indeed, ⁵  fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. ⁶  So now, please have respect for my life.”

2 Kings 7:13

7:13 One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!) ⁷  Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.” ⁸ 

2 Kings 13:19

13:19 The prophet ⁹  got angry at him and said, “If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! ¹⁰  But now, you will defeat Syria only three times.”

2 Kings 13:17

13:17 Elisha ¹¹  said, “Open the east window,” and he did so. ¹²  Elisha said, “Shoot!” and

he did so. ¹³  Elisha ¹⁴  said, “This arrow symbolizes the victory the Lord will give you over Syria. ¹⁵  You will annihilate Syria in Aphek!” ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 19:29

19:29 ¹⁷ This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: ¹⁸  This year you will eat what grows wild, ¹⁹  and next year ²⁰  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. ²¹ 

¹ tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”

² tn Wordplay contributes to the irony here. The king tells Elijah to “come down” (Hebrew יָרַד, yarad), but Elijah calls fire down (יָרַד) on the arrogant king’s officer.

³ tc Two medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Syriac Peshitta have the singular “to him.”

⁴ tn Or “intense fire.” The divine name may be used idiomatically to emphasize the intensity of the fire. Whether one translates אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) here as a proper name or idiomatically, this addition to the narrative (the name is omitted in the first panel, v. 10b) emphasizes the severity of the judgment and is appropriate given the more intense command delivered by the king to the prophet in this panel.

⁵ tn Heb “look.”

⁶ tn Heb “their fifty.”

⁷ tn Heb “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.” The MT is dittographic here; the words “that remain in it. Look they are like all the people of Israel” have been accidentally repeated. The original text read, “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.”

⁸ tn Heb “and let us send so we might see.”

⁹ tn Heb “man of God.”

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn Heb “He opened [it].”

¹³ tn Heb “and he shot.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵ tn Heb “The arrow of victory of the Lord and the arrow of victory over Syria.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “you will strike down Syria in Aphek until destruction.”

¹³ 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).

¹⁴ 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.

¹⁵ sn This refers to crops that grew up on their own (that is, without cultivation) from the seed planted in past years.

¹⁶ tn Heb “and in the second year.”

¹⁷ 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.