2 Kings 4:16

4:16 He said, “About this time next year ¹  you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”

2 Kings 4:24

4:24 She saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Lead on. ²  Do not stop unless I say so.” ³ 

2 Kings 4:36

4:36 Elisha ⁴  called to Gehazi and said, “Get the Shunammite woman.” So he did so ⁵  and she came to him. He said to her, “Take your son.”

2 Kings 6:8

Elisha Defeats an Army

6:8 Now the king of Syria was at war with Israel. He consulted his advisers, who said, “Invade ⁶  at such and such ⁷  a place.”

2 Kings 8:3

8:3 After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field. ⁸ 

2 Kings 19:9

19:9 The king ⁹  heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. ¹⁰  He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

[4:16]  ¹ tn Heb “at this appointed time, at the time [when it is] reviving.” For a discussion of the second phrase see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.

[4:24]  ² tn Heb “lead [the donkey on] and go.”

[4:24]  ³ tn Heb “do not restrain for me the riding unless I say to you.”

[4:36]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:36]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he called for her.”

[6:8]  ⁴ tc The verb form used here is difficult to analyze. On the basis of the form נְחִתִּים (nÿkhitim) in v. 9 from the root נָחַת (nakhat), it is probably best to emend the verb to תִּנְחְתוּ (tinkhÿtu; a Qal imperfect form from the same root). The verb נָחַת in at least two other instances carries the nuance “go down, descend” in a military context. For a defense of this view, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 72.

[6:8]  ⁵ sn The advisers would have mentioned a specific location, but the details are not significant to the narrator’s purpose, so he simply paraphrases here.

[8:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”

[19:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘Look, he has come out to fight with you.’”