2 Kings 13:21

13:21 One day some men ¹  were burying a man when they spotted ²  a raiding party. So they threw the dead man ³  into Elisha’s tomb. When the body ⁴  touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man ⁵  came to life and stood on his feet.

2 Kings 15:5

15:5 The Lord afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease ⁶  until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, ⁷  while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.

[13:21]  ¹ tn Heb “and it so happened [that] they.”

[13:21]  ² tn Heb “and look, they saw.”

[13:21]  ³ tn Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[13:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “the man.”

[13:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the dead man) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Otherwise the reader might think it was Elisha rather than the unnamed dead man who came back to life.

[15:5]  ⁶ tn Traditionally, “he was a leper.” But see the note at 5:1.

[15:5]  ⁷ tn The precise meaning of בֵית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhofÿshit), “house of […?],” is uncertain. For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.