2 Kings 1:11

1:11 The king ¹  sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, ²  “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’” ³ 

2 Kings 4:16

4:16 He said, “About this time next year ⁴  you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”

2 Kings 4:22

4:22 She called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”

2 Kings 6:9

6:9 But the prophet sent this message to the king of Israel, “Make sure you don’t pass through this place because Syria is invading there.”

2 Kings 6:31

6:31 Then he said, “May God judge me severely ⁵  if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!” ⁶ 

2 Kings 8:2

8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said. ⁷  She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

2 Kings 8:4

8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s ⁸  servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.”

2 Kings 8:7

Elisha Meets with Hazael

8:7 Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king ⁹  was told, “The prophet ¹⁰  has come here.”

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tc The MT reads, “he answered and said to him.” The verb “he answered” (וַיַּעַן, vayya’an) is probably a corruption of “he went up” (וַיַּעַל, vayya’al). See v. 9.

³ sn In this second panel of the three-paneled narrative, the king and his captain are more arrogant than before. The captain uses a more official sounding introduction (“this is what the king says”) and the king adds “at once” to the command.

⁴ tn Heb “at this appointed time, at the time [when it is] reviving.” For a discussion of the second phrase see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.

⁷ tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”

⁸ tn Heb “if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”

¹³ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁷ tn Heb “man of God” (also a second time in this verse and in v. 11).