2 Kings 7:12

7:12 The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, ¹  “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”

2 Kings 8:5

8:5 While Gehazi ²  was telling the king how Elisha ³  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. ⁴  Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”

2 Kings 14:9

14:9 King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal ⁵  of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn. ⁶ 

[7:12]  ¹ tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 13).

[8:5]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ⁴ 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.”

[14:9]  ³ tn Heb “the animal of the field.”

[14:9]  ⁴ sn Judah is the thorn in the allegory. Amaziah’s success has deceived him into thinking he is on the same level as the major powers in the area (symbolized by the cedar). In reality he is not capable of withstanding an attack by a real military power such as Israel (symbolized by the wild animal).