2 Kings 21:10

21:10 So the Lord announced through ¹  his servants the prophets:

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 ²  and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire ³  and boil some stew for the prophets.” ⁴ 

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 ⁵  stood by the Jordan.

2 Kings 2:15

2:15 When the members of the prophetic guild in Jericho, ⁶  who were standing at a distance, ⁷  saw him do this, they said, “The spirit that energized Elijah ⁸  rests upon Elisha.” They went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.

2 Kings 6:1

Elisha Makes an Ax Head Float

6:1 Some of the prophets ⁹  said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you ¹⁰  is too cramped ¹¹  for us.

2 Kings 9:1

Jehu Becomes King

9:1 Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild ¹²  and told him, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container ¹³  of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

2 Kings 9:7

9:7 You will destroy the family of your master Ahab. ¹⁴  I will get revenge against Jezebel for the shed blood of my servants the prophets and for the shed blood of all the Lord’s servants. ¹⁵ 

2 Kings 2:3

2:3 Some members of the prophetic guild ¹⁶  in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” ¹⁷  He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

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 4:1

Elisha Helps a Widow and Her Sons

4:1 Now a wife of one of the prophets ¹⁸  appealed ¹⁹  to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. ²⁰  Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”

2 Kings 5:22

5:22 He answered, “Everything is fine. ²¹  My master sent me with this message, ‘Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country. ²²  Please give them a talent ²³  of silver and two suits of clothes.’”

2 Kings 17:13

17:13 The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” ²⁴ 

2 Kings 17:23

17:23 Finally ²⁵  the Lord rejected Israel ²⁶  just as he had warned he would do ²⁷  through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

2 Kings 24:2

24:2 The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets. ²⁸ 

[21:10]  ¹ tn Heb “spoke by the hand of.”

[4:38]  ² tn Heb “the sons of the prophets were sitting before him.”

[4:38]  ³ tn The words “the fire” are added for clarification.

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

[2:7]  ³ tn Heb “the two of them.” The referents (Elijah and Elisha) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:15]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[2:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho, [who were standing] opposite, saw him and said.”

[2:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “the spirit of Elijah.”

[6:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”

[6:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “sit before you.”

[6:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “narrow, tight.”

[9:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “one of the sons of the prophets.”

[9:1]  ⁷ tn Or “flask.”

[9:7]  ⁷ tn Or “strike down the house of Ahab your master.”

[9:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “I will avenge the shed blood of my servants the prophets and the shed blood of all the servants of the Lord from the hand of Jezebel.”

[2:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”

[2:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “from your head.” The same expression occurs in v. 5.

[4:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “a wife from among the wives of the sons of the prophets.”

[4:1]  ¹⁰ tn Or “cried out.”

[4:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “your servant feared the Lord.” “Fear” refers here to obedience and allegiance, the products of healthy respect for the Lord’s authority.

[5:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “peace.”

[5:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Look now, here, two servants came to me from the Ephraimite hill country, from the sons of the prophets.”

[5:22]  ¹² tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 75 pounds of silver (cf. NCV, NLT, CEV).

[17:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “obey my commandments and rules according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.”

[17:23]  ¹² tn Heb “until.”

[17:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”

[17:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “just as he said.”

[24:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by the hand of his servants the prophets.”