2 Kings 2:16

2:16 They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord ¹  may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha ²  replied, “Don’t send them out.”

2 Kings 3:13

3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here? ³  Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”

2 Kings 4:29

4:29 Elisha ⁴  told Gehazi, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff, ⁵  and go! Don’t stop to exchange greetings with anyone! ⁶  Place my staff on the child’s face.”

2 Kings 8:1

Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman

8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, ⁷  for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

[2:16]  ¹ tn Or “the spirit of the Lord.”

[2:16]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:13]  ³ tn Or “What do we have in common?” The text reads literally, “What to me and to you?”

[4:29]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:29]  ⁶ tn Heb “take my staff in your hand.”

[4:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “If you meet a man, do not greet him with a blessing; if a man greets you with a blessing, do not answer.”

[8:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”