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2 Kings 1:9-10

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1:9 The king 1  sent a captain and his fifty soldiers 2  to retrieve Elijah. 3  The captain 4  went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. 5  He told him, “Prophet, 6  the king says, ‘Come down!’” 1:10 Elijah replied to the captain, 7  “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down 8  from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Kings 2:15

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2:15 When the members of the prophetic guild in Jericho, 9  who were standing at a distance, 10  saw him do this, they said, “The spirit that energized Elijah 11  rests upon Elisha.” They went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.

2 Kings 6:12

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

[1:9]  2 tn Heb “officer of fifty and his fifty.”

[1:9]  3 tn Heb “to him.”

[1:9]  4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the captain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:9]  5 sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.

[1:9]  6 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 10, 11, 12, 13).

[1:10]  7 tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”

[1:10]  8 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.

[2:15]  9 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[2:15]  10 tn Heb “and the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho, [who were standing] opposite, saw him and said.”

[2:15]  11 tn Heb “the spirit of Elijah.”



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