2 Kings 1:9-10

1:9 The king¹ sent a captain and his fifty soldiers² to retrieve Elijah.³ The captain⁴ went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill.⁵ He told him, “Prophet,⁶ the king says, ‘Come down!’” 1:10 Elijah replied to the captain,⁷ “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down⁸ from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Kings 4:7

4:7 She went and told the prophet.⁹ He said, “Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit.”

2 Kings 4:40

4:40 The stew was poured out¹⁰ for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out, “Death is in the pot, O prophet!” They could not eat it.

2 Kings 4:42

Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People

4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet¹¹ – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain.¹² Elisha¹³ said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”

2 Kings 5:14

5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed.¹⁴ His skin became as smooth as a young child’s¹⁵ and he was healed.

2 Kings 6:6

6:6 The prophet¹⁶ asked, “Where did it drop in?” When he showed him the spot, Elisha¹⁷ cut off a branch, threw it in at that spot, and made the ax head float.

2 Kings 6:15

6:15 The prophet’s¹⁸ attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha,¹⁹ “Oh no, my master! What will we do?”

2 Kings 7:18

7:18 The prophet told the king, “Two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of finely milled flour for a shekel; this will happen about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria.”

2 Kings 8:8

8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift²⁰ and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him,²¹ ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Kings 10:31

10:31 But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the Lord God of Israel.²² He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit.²³

2 Kings 13:19

13:19 The prophet²⁴ got angry at him and said, “If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria!²⁵ But now, you will defeat Syria only three times.”

2 Kings 17:16

17:16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky,²⁶ and worshiped²⁷ Baal.

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

²tn Heb “officer of fifty and his fifty.”

³tn Heb “to him.”

⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (the captain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.

⁶tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 10, 11, 12, 13).

⁷tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”

⁸tn 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.

¹³tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 16, 22, 25, 27 [twice]).

¹⁹tn Heb “and they poured out [the stew].” The plural subject is probably indefinite.

²⁵tn Heb “man of God.”

²⁶tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.

²⁷tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³¹tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”

³²tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”

³⁷tn Heb “man of God” (also in v. 9).

³⁸tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴³tn Heb “man of God’s.”

⁴⁴tn Heb “his young servant said to him.”

⁴⁹tn The Hebrew text also has “in your hand.”

⁵⁰tn Heb “Inquire of the Lord through him, saying.”

⁵⁵tn Heb “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart.”

⁵⁶tn Heb “He did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to commit.”

⁶¹tn Heb “man of God.”

⁶²tn 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.

⁶⁷tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

⁶⁸tn Or “served.”