2 Kings 1:11

1:11 The king ¹  sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, ²  “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’” ³ 

2 Kings 4:7

4:7 She went and told the prophet. ⁴  He said, “Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit.”

2 Kings 4:16

4:16 He said, “About this time next year ⁵  you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”

2 Kings 4:22

4:22 She called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”

2 Kings 4:40

4:40 The stew was poured out ⁶  for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out, “Death is in the pot, O prophet!” They could not eat it.

2 Kings 4:42

Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People

4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet ⁷  – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. ⁸  Elisha ⁹  said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”

2 Kings 5:14

5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. ¹⁰  His skin became as smooth as a young child’s ¹¹  and he was healed.

2 Kings 6:6

6:6 The prophet ¹²  asked, “Where did it drop in?” When he showed him the spot, Elisha ¹³  cut off a branch, threw it in at that spot, and made the ax head float.

2 Kings 6:9-10

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 ¹⁴  to be on its guard. This happened on several occasions. ¹⁵ 

2 Kings 7:18

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.”

2 Kings 8:2

8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said. ¹⁶  She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

2 Kings 8:4

8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s ¹⁷  servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.”

2 Kings 8:7

Elisha Meets with Hazael

8:7 Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king ¹⁸  was told, “The prophet ¹⁹  has come here.”

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

[1:11]  ² 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]  ³ 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.

[4:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 16, 22, 25, 27 [twice]).

[4:16]  ⁷ 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.

[4:40]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and they poured out [the stew].” The plural subject is probably indefinite.

[4:42]  ¹³ tn Heb “man of God.”

[4:42]  ¹⁴ tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.

[4:42]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”

[5:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”

[6:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “man of God” (also in v. 9).

[6:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:10]  ²² tn The vav + perfect here indicates action contemporary with the preceding main verb (“sent”). See IBHS 533-34 §32.2.3e.

[6:10]  ²³ 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.”

[8:2]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”

[8:4]  ²⁸ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

[8:7]  ³¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:7]  ³² tn Heb “man of God” (also a second time in this verse and in v. 11).