2 Kings 2:5

2:5 Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

2 Kings 2:7

2:7 The fifty members of the prophetic guild went and stood opposite them at a distance, while Elijah and Elisha ¹  stood by the Jordan.

2 Kings 2:15

2:15 When the members of the prophetic guild in Jericho, ²  who were standing at a distance, ³  saw him do this, they said, “The spirit that energized Elijah ⁴  rests upon Elisha.” They went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.

2 Kings 4:1

Elisha Helps a Widow and Her Sons

4:1 Now a wife of one of the prophets ⁵  appealed ⁶  to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. ⁷  Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”

2 Kings 4:38

Elisha Makes a Meal Edible

4:38 Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him ⁸  and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire ⁹  and boil some stew for the prophets.” ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 9:1

Jehu Becomes King

9:1 Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild ¹¹  and told him, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container ¹²  of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

2 Kings 9:1

Jehu Becomes King

9:1 Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild ¹³  and told him, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container ¹⁴  of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

2 Kings 10:10-12

10:10 Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the Lord announced against Ahab’s dynasty has failed to materialize. The Lord had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.” ¹⁵  10:11 Then Jehu killed all who were left of Ahab’s family in Jezreel, and all his nobles, close friends, and priests. He left no survivors.

10:12 Jehu then left there and set out for Samaria. ¹⁶  While he was traveling through Beth Eked of the Shepherds,

2 Kings 19:20

19:20 Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria. ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 19:1

19:1 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 18:4

18:4 He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. ¹⁸  He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time ¹⁹  the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan. ²⁰ 

2 Kings 20:1

Hezekiah is Healed

20:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. ²¹  The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’” ²² 

Isaiah 8:18

8:18 Look, I and the sons whom the Lord has given me ²³  are reminders and object lessons ²⁴  in Israel, sent from the Lord who commands armies, who lives on Mount Zion.

[2:7]  ¹ tn Heb “the two of them.” The referents (Elijah and Elisha) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

[2:15]  ³ tn Heb “and the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho, [who were standing] opposite, saw him and said.”

[2:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “the spirit of Elijah.”

[4:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “a wife from among the wives of the sons of the prophets.”

[4:1]  ⁶ tn Or “cried out.”

[4:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “your servant feared the Lord.” “Fear” refers here to obedience and allegiance, the products of healthy respect for the Lord’s authority.

[4:38]  ⁸ tn Heb “the sons of the prophets were sitting before him.”

[4:38]  ⁹ tn The words “the fire” are added for clarification.

[4:38]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “sons of the prophets.”

[9:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “one of the sons of the prophets.”

[9:1]  ¹² tn Or “flask.”

[9:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “one of the sons of the prophets.”

[9:1]  ¹⁴ tn Or “flask.”

[10:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Know then that there has not fallen from the word of the Lord to the ground that which the Lord spoke against the house of Ahab. The Lord has done that which he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah.”

[10:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and he arose and went and came to Samaria.”

[19:20]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “That which you prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.” The verb “I have heard” does not appear in the parallel passage in Isa 37:21, where אֲשֶׁר (’asher) probably has a causal sense, “because.”

[18:4]  ¹⁸ tn The term is singular in the MT but plural in the LXX and other ancient versions. It is also possible to regard the singular as a collective singular, especially in the context of other plural items.

[18:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “until those days.”

[18:4]  ²⁰ tn In Hebrew the name sounds like the phrase נְחַשׁ הַנְּחֹשֶׁת (nÿkhash hannÿkhoshet), “bronze serpent.”

[20:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying.”

[20:1]  ²² tn Heb “will not live.”

[8:18]  ²³ sn This refers to Shear-jashub (7:3) and Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz (8:1, 3).

[8:18]  ²⁴ tn Or “signs and portents” (NAB, NRSV). The names of all three individuals has symbolic value. Isaiah’s name (which meant “the Lord delivers”) was a reminder that the Lord was the nation’s only source of protection; Shear-jashub’s name was meant, at least originally, to encourage Ahaz (see the note at 7:3), and Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz’s name was a guarantee that God would defeat Israel and Syria (see the note at 8:4). The word מוֹפֶת (mofet, “portent”) can often refer to some miraculous event, but in 20:3 it is used, along with its synonym אוֹת (’ot, “sign”) of Isaiah’s walking around half-naked as an object lesson of what would soon happen to the Egyptians.