2 Kings 4:34

4:34 He got up on the bed and spread his body out over¹ the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s² mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin³ grew warm.

2 Kings 4:11

4:11 One day Elisha⁴ came for a visit; he went⁵ into the upper room and rested.⁶

2 Kings 4:29

4:29 Elisha⁷ told Gehazi, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff,⁸ and go! Don’t stop to exchange greetings with anyone!⁹ Place my staff on the child’s face.”

2 Kings 10:8

10:8 The messenger came and told Jehu,¹⁰ “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” Jehu¹¹ said, “Stack them in two piles at the entrance of the city gate until morning.”

2 Kings 9:16

9:16 Jehu drove his chariot¹² to Jezreel, for Joram was recuperating¹³ there. (Now King Ahaziah of Judah had come down to visit¹⁴ Joram.)

2 Kings 20:7

20:7 Isaiah ordered, “Get a fig cake.” So they did as he ordered¹⁵ and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered.¹⁶

2 Kings 1:2

1:2 Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria¹⁷ and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders,¹⁸ “Go, ask¹⁹ Baal Zebub,²⁰ the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.”

2 Kings 19:25

19:25 ²¹Certainly you must have heard!²²

Long ago I worked it out,

In ancient times I planned²³ it;

and now I am bringing it to pass.

The plan is this:

Fortified cities will crash

into heaps of ruins.²⁴

2 Kings 8:7

Elisha Meets with Hazael

8:7 Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king²⁵ was told, “The prophet²⁶ has come here.”

¹tn Heb “he went up and lay down over.”

²tn Heb “his” (also in the next two clauses).

³tn Or perhaps, “body”; Heb “flesh.”

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

⁵tn Heb “turned aside.”

⁶tn Or “slept there.”

⁷tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸tn Heb “take my staff in your hand.”

⁹tn Heb “If you meet a man, do not greet him with a blessing; if a man greets you with a blessing, do not answer.”

¹⁰tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³tn Heb “rode [or, ‘mounted’] and went.”

¹⁴tn Heb “lying down.”

¹⁵tn Heb “to see.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and they got [a fig cake].”

¹⁷tn Heb “and he lived.”

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²⁰tn Heb “and he sent messengers and said to them.”

²¹tn That is, “seek an oracle from.”

²²sn Apparently Baal Zebub refers to a local manifestation of the god Baal at the Philistine city of Ekron. The name appears to mean “Lord of the Flies,” but it may be a deliberate scribal corruption of Baal Zebul, “Baal, the Prince,” a title known from the Ugaritic texts. For further discussion and bibliography, see HALOT 261 s.v. זְבוּב בַּעַל and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 25.

²²tn Having quoted the Assyrian king’s arrogant words in vv. 23-24, the Lord now speaks to the king.

²³tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say.

²⁴tn Heb “formed.”

²⁵tn Heb “and it is to cause to crash into heaps of ruins fortified cities.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb תְּהִי (tÿhi) is the implied plan, referred to in the preceding lines with third feminine singular pronominal suffixes.

²⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁶tn Heb “man of God” (also a second time in this verse and in v. 11).