2 Kings 1:9

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!’”

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ⁷  day of the twelfth month, ⁸  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁹  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ¹⁰  from prison.

[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).

[25:27]  ⁷ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

[25:27]  ⁸ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[25:27]  ¹⁰ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.