2 Kings 4:8

Elisha Gives Life to a Boy

4:8 One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent ¹  woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. ²  So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal. ³ 

2 Kings 6:28

6:28 Then the king asked her, “What’s your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’

2 Kings 6:30

6:30 When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes. ⁴ 

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, ⁵  for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

2 Kings 8:6

8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. ⁶  The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, ⁷  “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

2 Kings 22:14

22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shullam son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the supervisor of the wardrobe. ⁸  (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh ⁹  district.) They stated their business, ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 24:15

24:15 He deported Jehoiachin from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with the king’s mother and wives, his eunuchs, and the high-ranking officials of the land. ¹¹ 

[4:8]  ¹ tn Heb “great,” perhaps “wealthy.”

[4:8]  ² tn Or “she urged him to eat some food.”

[4:8]  ³ tn Or “he would turn aside there to eat some food.”

[6:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “the people saw, and look, [there was] sackcloth against his skin underneath.”

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

[8:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

[8:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

[22:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”

[22:14]  ¹⁴ tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.

[22:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and they spoke to her.”

[24:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and he deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; the mother of the king and the wives of the king and his eunuchs and the mighty of the land he led into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.”