2 Kings 5:3

5:3 She told her mistress, “If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria! ¹  Then he would cure him of his skin disease.”

2 Kings 9:1

Jehu Becomes King

9:1 Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild ²  and told him, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container ³  of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

2 Kings 19:2

19:2 He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, ⁴  clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:

2 Kings 20:11

20:11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord ⁵  made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz. ⁶ 

2 Kings 23:18

23:18 The king ⁷  said, “Leave it alone! No one must touch his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, as well as the bones of the Israelite prophet buried beside him. ⁸ 

[5:3]  ¹ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[9:1]  ² tn Heb “one of the sons of the prophets.”

[9:1]  ³ tn Or “flask.”

[19:2]  ³ tn Heb “elders of the priests.”

[20:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.”

[23:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they left undisturbed his bones, the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.” If the phrase “the bones of the prophet” were appositional to “his bones,” one would expect the sentence to end “from Judah” (see v. 17). Apparently the “prophet” referred to in the second half of the verse is the old prophet from Bethel who buried the man of God from Judah in his own tomb and instructed his sons to bury his bones there as well (1 Kgs 13:30-31). One expects the text to read “from Bethel,” but “Samaria” (which was not even built at the time of the incident recorded in 1 Kgs 13) is probably an anachronistic reference to the northern kingdom in general. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:32 and the discussion in M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 290.