9:1 Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild 3 and told him, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container 4 of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.
22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. 5 His mother 6 was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath. 22:2 He did what the Lord approved 7 and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; 8 he did not deviate to the right or the left.
1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. 9
1 tn Heb “drove him.”
2 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
3 tn Heb “one of the sons of the prophets.”
4 tn Or “flask.”
5 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
6 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
7 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
8 tn Heb “and walked in all the way of David his father.”
9 sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22.