8:7 Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king 5 was told, “The prophet 6 has come here.”
1 tn Heb “Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him.” The wording is changed slightly in the translation for the sake of variety of expression (see v. 13).
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”
3 tn Heb “and he went up.”
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “man of God” (also a second time in this verse and in v. 11).