2 Kings 1:9

1:9 The king 1  sent a captain and his fifty soldiers 2  to retrieve Elijah. 3  The captain 4  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!’”

2 Kings 1:12-13

1:12 Elijah replied to them, 7  “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire from God 8  came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

1:13 The king 9  sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell 10  on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, “Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

2 Kings 5:7-8

5:7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill or restore life? Why does he ask me to cure a man of his skin disease? 11  Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!” 12 

5:8 When Elisha the prophet 13  heard that the king had torn his clothes, he sent this message to the king, “Why did you tear your clothes? Send him 14  to me so he may know there is a prophet in Israel.”

2 Kings 5:15

5:15 He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman 15  came and stood before him. He said, “For sure 16  I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.”

2 Kings 5:20

5:20 Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought, 17  “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. 18  As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.”

2 Kings 6:15

6:15 The prophet’s 19  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, 20  “Oh no, my master! What will we do?”

2 Kings 7:2

7:2 An officer who was the king’s right-hand man 21  responded to the prophet, 22  “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” 23  Elisha 24  said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!” 25 

2 Kings 7:17

7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man 26  at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. 27  This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. 28 

2 Kings 7:19

7:19 But the officer replied to the prophet, “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” 29  Elisha 30  said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!” 31 

2 Kings 8:8

8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift 32  and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, 33  ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Kings 13:19

13:19 The prophet 34  got angry at him and said, “If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! 35  But now, you will defeat Syria only three times.”

2 Kings 19:15

19:15 Hezekiah prayed before the Lord: “Lord God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubs! 36  You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky 37  and the earth.

2 Kings 23:16-17

23:16 When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; 38  he burned them on the altar and defiled it. This fulfilled the Lord’s announcement made by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. King Josiah 39  turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this. 40  23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet 41  who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

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

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

3 tn Heb “to him.”

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

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

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

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

8 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.

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

14 tn Heb “went up and approached and kneeled.”

19 tn Heb “Am I God, killing and restoring life, that this one sends to me to cure a man from his skin disease?” In the Hebrew text this is one lengthy rhetorical question, which has been divided up in the translation for stylistic reasons.

20 tn Heb “Indeed, know and see that he is seeking an occasion with respect to me.”

25 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 15, 20).

26 tn Heb “Let him come.”

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

32 tn Heb “look.”

37 tn Heb “said” (i.e., to himself).

38 tn Heb “Look, my master spared this Syrian Naaman by not taking from his hand what he brought.”

43 tn Heb “man of God’s.”

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

49 tn Heb “the officer on whose hand the king leans.”

50 tn Heb “man of God.”

51 tn Heb “the Lord was making holes in the sky, could this thing be?” Opening holes in the sky would allow the waters stored up there to pour to the earth and assure a good crop. But, the officer argues, even if this were to happen, it would take a long time to grow and harvest the crop.

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

53 tn Heb “you will not eat from there.”

55 tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”

56 tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”

57 tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”

61 tn Heb “the Lord was making holes in the sky, could this thing be?” See the note at 7:2.

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

63 tn Heb “you will not eat from there.”

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

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

73 tn Heb “man of God.”

74 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.

79 sn This refers to the cherub images that were above the ark of the covenant.

80 tn Or “the heavens.”

85 tn Heb “and he sent and took the bones from the tombs.”

86 tn Heb “the king”; this has been specified as “King Josiah” in the translation for clarity (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).

87 tc The MT is much shorter than this. It reads, “according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.” The LXX has a much longer text at this point. It reads: “[which was proclaimed by the man of God] while Jeroboam stood by the altar at a celebration. Then he turned and saw the grave of the man of God [who proclaimed these words].” The extra material attested in the LXX was probably accidentally omitted in the Hebrew tradition when a scribe’s eye jumped from the first occurrence of the phrase “man of God” (which appears right before the extra material) and the second occurrence of the phrase (which appears at the end of the extra material).

91 tn Heb “man of God.”