2 Kings 6:32

6:32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. ¹  The king ²  sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, ³  Elisha ⁴  said to the leaders, ⁵  “Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?” ⁶  Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.” ⁷ 

2 Kings 8:5

8:5 While Gehazi ⁸  was telling the king how Elisha ⁹  had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. ¹⁰  Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ¹¹  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ¹²  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ¹³  and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law ¹⁴  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

[6:32]  ¹ tn Heb “and the elders were sitting with him.”

[6:32]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:32]  ³ tn Heb “sent a man from before him, before the messenger came to him.”

[6:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “elders.”

[6:32]  ⁶ tn Heb “Do you see that this son of an assassin has sent to remove my head?”

[6:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”

[8:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and look, the woman whose son he had brought back to life was crying out to the king for her house and her field.”

[23:24]  ¹⁵ tn Here בִּעֵר (bi’er) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.

[23:24]  ¹⁶ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ¹⁷ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”