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!’”
25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh 7 day of the twelfth month, 8 King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 9 King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 10 from prison.
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 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
8 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561
9 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
10 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.