2 Kings 1:10

1:10 Elijah replied to the captain, ¹  “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down ²  from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Kings 1:13

1:13 The king ³  sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell ⁴  on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, “Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

2 Kings 1:11

1:11 The king ⁵  sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, ⁶  “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’” ⁷ 

2 Kings 1:14

1:14 Indeed, ⁸  fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. ⁹  So now, please have respect for my life.”

2 Kings 1:12

1:12 Elijah replied to them, ¹⁰  “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire from God ¹¹  came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Kings 1:9

1:9 The king ¹²  sent a captain and his fifty soldiers ¹³  to retrieve Elijah. ¹⁴  The captain ¹⁵  went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. ¹⁶  He told him, “Prophet, ¹⁷  the king says, ‘Come down!’”

2 Kings 2:7

2:7 The fifty members of the prophetic guild went and stood opposite them at a distance, while Elijah and Elisha ¹⁸  stood by the Jordan.

2 Kings 2:17

2:17 But they were so insistent, he became embarrassed. So he said, “Send them out.” They sent the fifty men out and they looked for three days, but could not find Elijah. ¹⁹ 

2 Kings 15:2

15:2 He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. ²⁰  His mother’s name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 21:1

Manasseh’s Reign over Judah

21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. ²¹  His mother ²²  was Hephzibah.

2 Kings 13:7

13:7 Jehoahaz had no army left ²³  except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers. The king of Syria had destroyed his troops ²⁴  and trampled on them like dust. ²⁵ 

2 Kings 15:27

Pekah’s Reign over Israel

15:27 In the fifty-second year of King Azariah’s reign over Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria ²⁶  for twenty years.

2 Kings 15:20

15:20 Menahem got this silver by taxing all the wealthy men in Israel; he took fifty shekels of silver from each one of them and paid it to the king of Assyria. ²⁷  Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.

2 Kings 2:16

2:16 They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord ²⁸  may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha ²⁹  replied, “Don’t send them out.”

2 Kings 15:25

15:25 His officer Pekah son of Remaliah conspired against him. He and fifty Gileadites assassinated Pekahiah, as well as Argob and Arieh, in Samaria in the fortress of the royal palace. ³⁰  Pekah then took his place as king.

[1:10]  ¹ tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”

[1:10]  ² tn Wordplay contributes to the irony here. The king tells Elijah to “come down” (Hebrew יָרַד, yarad), but Elijah calls fire down (יָרַד) on the arrogant king’s officer.

[1:13]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “went up and approached and kneeled.”

[1:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:11]  ⁶ tc The MT reads, “he answered and said to him.” The verb “he answered” (וַיַּעַן, vayya’an) is probably a corruption of “he went up” (וַיַּעַל, vayya’al). See v. 9.

[1:11]  ⁷ sn In this second panel of the three-paneled narrative, the king and his captain are more arrogant than before. The captain uses a more official sounding introduction (“this is what the king says”) and the king adds “at once” to the command.

[1:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “look.”

[1:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “their fifty.”

[1:12]  ⁹ tc Two medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Syriac Peshitta have the singular “to him.”

[1:12]  ¹⁰ tn Or “intense fire.” The divine name may be used idiomatically to emphasize the intensity of the fire. Whether one translates אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) here as a proper name or idiomatically, this addition to the narrative (the name is omitted in the first panel, v. 10b) emphasizes the severity of the judgment and is appropriate given the more intense command delivered by the king to the prophet in this panel.

[1:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:9]  ¹² tn Heb “officer of fifty and his fifty.”

[1:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “to him.”

[1:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the captain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:9]  ¹⁵ sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.

[1:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 10, 11, 12, 13).

[2:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “the two of them.” The referents (Elijah and Elisha) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:2]  ¹⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[21:1]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[21:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

[13:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “Indeed he did not leave to Jehoahaz people.” The identity of the subject is uncertain, but the king of Syria, mentioned later in the verse, is a likely candidate.

[13:7]  ²² tn Heb “them,” i.e., the remainder of this troops.

[13:7]  ²³ tn Heb “and made them like dust for trampling.”

[15:27]  ²³ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[15:20]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and Menahem brought out the silver over Israel, over the prominent men of means, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver for each man.”

[2:16]  ²⁷ tn Or “the spirit of the Lord.”

[2:16]  ²⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:25]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and he struck him down in Samaria in the fortress of the house of the king, Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men from the sons of the Gileadites, and they killed him.”