2 Kings 4:30

4:30 The mother of the child said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha ¹  got up and followed her back.

2 Kings 10:12

10:12 Jehu then left there and set out for Samaria. ²  While he was traveling through Beth Eked of the Shepherds,

2 Kings 1:15

1:15 The Lord’s angelic messenger said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” So he got up and went down ³  with him to the king.

2 Kings 9:6

9:6 So Jehu ⁴  got up and went inside. Then the prophet ⁵  poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I have designated you as king over the Lord’s people Israel.

2 Kings 13:21

13:21 One day some men ⁶  were burying a man when they spotted ⁷  a raiding party. So they threw the dead man ⁸  into Elisha’s tomb. When the body ⁹  touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man ¹⁰  came to life and stood on his feet.

2 Kings 21:3

21:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ¹¹  and worshiped ¹²  them.

2 Kings 7:12

7:12 The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, ¹³  “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity. The referent must be Elisha here, since the following verse makes it clear that Gehazi had gone on ahead of them.

² tn Heb “and he arose and went and came to Samaria.”

³ sn In this third panel the verb “come down” (יָרַד, yarad) occurs again, this time describing Elijah’s descent from the hill at the Lord’s command. The moral of the story seems clear: Those who act as if they have authority over God and his servants just may pay for their arrogance with their lives; those who, like the third commander, humble themselves and show the proper respect for God’s authority and for his servants will be spared and find God quite cooperative.

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

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “and it so happened [that] they.”

⁶ tn Heb “and look, they saw.”

⁷ tn Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “the man.”

⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the dead man) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Otherwise the reader might think it was Elisha rather than the unnamed dead man who came back to life.

⁶ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 17:16.

⁷ tn Or “served.”

⁷ tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 13).