2 Kings 1:9-10

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 4:7

4:7 She went and told the prophet. ⁹  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 4:40

4:40 The stew was poured out ¹⁰  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 ¹¹  – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. ¹²  Elisha ¹³  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. ¹⁴  His skin became as smooth as a young child’s ¹⁵  and he was healed.

2 Kings 6:6

6:6 The prophet ¹⁶  asked, “Where did it drop in?” When he showed him the spot, Elisha ¹⁷  cut off a branch, threw it in at that spot, and made the ax head float.

2 Kings 6:15

6:15 The prophet’s ¹⁸  attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha, ¹⁹  “Oh no, my master! What will we do?”

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 8:8

8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift ²⁰  and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, ²¹  ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Kings 10:31

10:31 But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the Lord God of Israel. ²²  He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit. ²³ 

2 Kings 13:19

13:19 The prophet ²⁴  got angry at him and said, “If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! ²⁵  But now, you will defeat Syria only three times.”

2 Kings 17:16

17:16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, ²⁶  and worshiped ²⁷  Baal.

[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.

[4:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 16, 22, 25, 27 [twice]).

[4:40]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and they poured out [the stew].” The plural subject is probably indefinite.

[4:42]  ²⁵ tn Heb “man of God.”

[4:42]  ²⁶ 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]  ²⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:14]  ³¹ tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”

[5:14]  ³² tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”

[6:6]  ³⁷ tn Heb “man of God” (also in v. 9).

[6:6]  ³⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:15]  ⁴³ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

[6:15]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “his young servant said to him.”

[8:8]  ⁴⁹ tn The Hebrew text also has “in your hand.”

[8:8]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “Inquire of the Lord through him, saying.”

[10:31]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart.”

[10:31]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “He did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to commit.”

[13:19]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “man of God.”

[13:19]  ⁶² tn Heb “[It was necessary] to strike five or six times, then you would strike down Syria until destruction.” On the syntax of the infinitive construct, see GKC 349 §114.k.

[17:16]  ⁶⁷ tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

[17:16]  ⁶⁸ tn Or “served.”