2 Kings 4:8-11

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  4:9 She said to her husband, “Look, I’m sure ⁴  that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet. ⁵  4:10 Let’s make a small private upper room ⁶  and furnish it with ⁷  a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”

4:11 One day Elisha ⁸  came for a visit; he went ⁹  into the upper room and rested. ¹⁰ 

[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.”

[4:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “I know.”

[4:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “holy man of God.”

[4:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “a small upper room of a wall”; according to HALOT 832 s.v. עֲלִיָּה, this refers to “a fully walled upper room.”

[4:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “and let’s put there for him.”

[4:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “turned aside.”

[4:11]  ¹² tn Or “slept there.”