2 Kings 1:13
Context1:13 The king 1 sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell 2 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 5:8
Context5:8 When Elisha the prophet 3 heard that the king had torn his clothes, he sent this message to the king, “Why did you tear your clothes? Send him 4 to me so he may know there is a prophet in Israel.”
2 Kings 7:2
Context7:2 An officer who was the king’s right-hand man 5 responded to the prophet, 6 “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” 7 Elisha 8 said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!” 9
2 Kings 7:17
Context7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man 10 at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. 11 This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. 12
2 Kings 14:25
Context14:25 He restored the border of Israel from Lebo Hamath in the north to the sea of the Arabah in the south, 13 in accordance with the word of the Lord God of Israel announced through 14 his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.
2 Kings 23:17
Context23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet 15 who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”


[1:13] 1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[1:13] 2 tn Heb “went up and approached and kneeled.”
[5:8] 3 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 15, 20).
[5:8] 4 tn Heb “Let him come.”
[7:2] 5 tn Heb “the officer on whose hand the king leans.”
[7:2] 7 tn Heb “the
[7:2] 8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[7:2] 9 tn Heb “you will not eat from there.”
[7:17] 7 tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”
[7:17] 8 tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”
[7:17] 9 tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”
[14:25] 9 tn The phrases “in the north” and “in the south” are added in the translation for clarification.