2 Kings 2:14

2:14 He took the cloak that had fallen off Elijah, ¹  hit the water with it, and said, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” When he hit the water, it divided and Elisha crossed over.

2 Kings 2:20-22

2:20 Elisha ²  said, “Get me a new jar and put some salt in it.” So they got it. 2:21 He went out to the spring and threw the salt in. Then he said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have purified ³  this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops.” ⁴  2:22 The water has been pure to this very day, just as Elisha prophesied. ⁵ 

2 Kings 2:24

2:24 When he turned around and saw them, he called God’s judgment down on them. ⁶  Two female bears came out of the woods and ripped forty-two of the boys to pieces.

2 Kings 3:14-16

3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all ⁷  lives (whom I serve), ⁸  if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah, ⁹  I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you. ¹⁰  3:15 But now, get me a musician.” ¹¹  When the musician played, the Lord energized him, ¹²  3:16 and he said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Make many cisterns in this valley,’ ¹³ 

2 Kings 4:3-6

4:3 He said, “Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. ¹⁴  Get as many as you can. ¹⁵  4:4 Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers; ¹⁶  set aside each one when you have filled it.” 4:5 So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil. 4:6 When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons, ¹⁷  “Bring me another container.” But he answered her, “There are no more.” Then the olive oil stopped flowing.

2 Kings 4:16-17

4:16 He said, “About this time next year ¹⁸  you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!” 4:17 The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

2 Kings 5:14

5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. ¹⁹  His skin became as smooth as a young child’s ²⁰  and he was healed.

2 Kings 5:27

5:27 Therefore Naaman’s skin disease will afflict ²¹  you and your descendants forever!” When Gehazi ²²  went out from his presence, his skin was as white as snow. ²³ 

2 Kings 6:6

6:6 The prophet ²⁴  asked, “Where did it drop in?” When he showed him the spot, Elisha ²⁵  cut off a branch, threw it in at that spot, and made the ax head float.

2 Kings 6:9-12

6:9 But the prophet sent this message to the king of Israel, “Make sure you don’t pass through this place because Syria is invading there.” 6:10 So the king of Israel sent a message to the place the prophet had pointed out, warning it ²⁶  to be on its guard. This happened on several occasions. ²⁷  6:11 This made the king of Syria upset. ²⁸  So he summoned his advisers ²⁹  and said to them, “One of us must be helping the king of Israel.” ³⁰  6:12 One of his advisers said, “No, my master, O king. The prophet Elisha who lives in Israel keeps telling the king of Israel the things you say in your bedroom.”

2 Kings 6:17-20

6:17 Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes so he can see.” The Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw that ³¹  the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. 6:18 As they approached him, ³²  Elisha prayed to the Lord, “Strike these people ³³  with blindness.” ³⁴  The Lord ³⁵  struck them with blindness as Elisha requested. ³⁶  6:19 Then Elisha said to them, “This is not the right road or city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you’re looking for.” He led them to Samaria. ³⁷ 

6:20 When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O Lord, open their eyes, so they can see.” The Lord opened their eyes and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria. ³⁸ 

2 Kings 6:32

6:32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. ³⁹  The king ⁴⁰  sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, ⁴¹  Elisha ⁴²  said to the leaders, ⁴³  “Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?” ⁴⁴  Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.” ⁴⁵ 

2 Kings 6:2

6:2 Let’s go to the Jordan. Each of us will get a log from there and we will build a meeting place for ourselves there.” He said, “Go.”

2 Kings 7:1

7:1 Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord says, ‘About this time tomorrow a seah ⁴⁶  of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.’”

2 Kings 7:16-20

7:16 Then the people went out and looted the Syrian camp. A seah ⁴⁷  of finely milled flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, just as the Lord had said they would. ⁴⁸ 

7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man ⁴⁹  at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. ⁵⁰  This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. ⁵¹  7:18 The prophet told the king, “Two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of finely milled flour for a shekel; this will happen about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria.” 7:19 But the officer replied to the prophet, “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” ⁵²  Elisha ⁵³  said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!” ⁵⁴  7:20 This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.

[2:14]  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).

[2:20]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:21]  ³ tn Or “healed.”

[2:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “there will no longer be from there death and miscarriage [or, ‘barrenness’].”

[2:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.”

[2:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “he cursed them in the name of the Lord.” A curse was a formal appeal to a higher authority (here the Lord) to vindicate one’s cause through judgment. As in chapter one, this account makes it clear that disrespect for the Lord’s designated spokesmen can be deadly, for it is ultimately rejection of the Lord’s authority.

[3:14]  ⁷ tn Traditionally “the Lord of hosts.”

[3:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

[3:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”

[3:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”

[3:15]  ¹¹ tn The term used refers to one who plays a stringed instrument, perhaps a harp.

[3:15]  ¹² tn Heb “the hand of the Lord came on him.” This may refer to what typically happened, “[for] when a musician played, the hand of the Lord would come upon him.”

[3:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “making this valley cisterns, cisterns.” The Hebrew noun גֵּב (gev) means “cistern” in Jer 14:3 (cf. Jer 39:10). The repetition of the noun is for emphasis. See GKC 396 §123.e. The verb (“making”) is an infinitive absolute, which has to be interpreted in light of the context. The translation above takes it in an imperatival sense. The command need not be understood as literal, but as hyperbolic. Telling them to build cisterns is a dramatic way of leading into the announcement that he would miraculously provide water in the desert. Some prefer to translate the infinitive as an imperfect with the Lord as the understood subject, “I will turn this valley [into] many pools.”

[4:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Go, ask for containers from outside, from all your neighbors, empty containers.”

[4:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Do not borrow just a few.”

[4:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “all these vessels.”

[4:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “to her son.”

[4:16]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “at this appointed time, at the time [when it is] reviving.” For a discussion of the second phrase see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.

[5:14]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”

[5:14]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”

[5:27]  ²¹ tn Heb “cling to.”

[5:27]  ²² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:27]  ²³ tn Traditionally, “he went from before him, leprous like snow.” But see the note at 5:1, as well as M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 66.

[6:6]  ²⁴ tn Heb “man of God” (also in v. 9).

[6:6]  ²⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:10]  ²⁶ tn The vav + perfect here indicates action contemporary with the preceding main verb (“sent”). See IBHS 533-34 §32.2.3e.

[6:10]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and the king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God spoke to him, and he warned it and he guarded himself there, not once and not twice.”

[6:11]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and the heart of the king of Syria was stirred up over this thing.”

[6:11]  ²⁹ tn Heb “servants.”

[6:11]  ³⁰ tn Heb “Will you not tell me who among us [is] for the king of Israel?” The sarcastic rhetorical question expresses the king’s suspicion.

[6:17]  ³¹ tn Heb “and he saw, and look.”

[6:18]  ³² tn Heb “and they came down to him.”

[6:18]  ³³ tn Or “this nation,” perhaps emphasizing the strength of the Syrian army.

[6:18]  ³⁴ tn On the basis of the Akkadian etymology of the word, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 74) translate “blinding light.” HALOT 761 s.v. סַנְוֵרִים suggests the glosses “dazzling, deception.”

[6:18]  ³⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:18]  ³⁶ tn Heb “according to the word of Elisha.”

[6:19]  ³⁷ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[6:20]  ³⁸ tn Heb “and they saw, and look, [they were] in the middle of Samaria.”

[6:32]  ³⁹ tn Heb “and the elders were sitting with him.”

[6:32]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:32]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “sent a man from before him, before the messenger came to him.”

[6:32]  ⁴² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:32]  ⁴³ tn Heb “elders.”

[6:32]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “Do you see that this son of an assassin has sent to remove my head?”

[6:32]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”

[7:1]  ⁴⁶ sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.

[7:16]  ⁴⁷ sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.

[7:16]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord.”

[7:17]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”

[7:17]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”

[7:17]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”

[7:19]  ⁵² tn Heb “the Lord was making holes in the sky, could this thing be?” See the note at 7:2.

[7:19]  ⁵³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:19]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “you will not eat from there.”