2 Kings 2:9

2:9 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “What can I do for you, ¹  before I am taken away from you?” Elisha answered, “May I receive a double portion of the prophetic spirit that energizes you.” ² 

2 Kings 4:8

Elisha Gives Life to a Boy

4:8 One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent ³  woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. ⁴  So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal. ⁵ 

2 Kings 5:1

Elisha Heals a Syrian General

5:1 Now Naaman, the commander of the king of Syria’s army, was esteemed and respected by his master, ⁶  for through him the Lord had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease. ⁷ 

2 Kings 17:41

17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

2 Kings 25:25

25:25 But in the seventh month ⁸  Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, ⁹  came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, ¹⁰  as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.

¹ tn Heb “Ask! What can I do for you….?”

² tn Heb “May a double portion of your spirit come to me.”

³ tn Heb “great,” perhaps “wealthy.”

⁴ tn Or “she urged him to eat some food.”

⁵ tn Or “he would turn aside there to eat some food.”

⁵ tn Heb “was a great man before his master and lifted up with respect to the face.”

⁶ tn For a discussion of מְצֹרָע (mÿtsora’), traditionally translated “leprous,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 63. Naaman probably had a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy/Hansen’s disease.

⁷ sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; Jer 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; Jer 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (Jer 40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (Jer 52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).

⁸ tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”

⁹ tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”