2 Kings 7:4

7:4 If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, ¹  and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect ²  to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, ³  we’ll live; if they kill us – well, we were going to die anyway.” ⁴ 

2 Kings 2:10

2:10 Elijah ⁵  replied, “That’s a difficult request! ⁶  If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don’t, it will not happen.”

2 Kings 1:10

1:10 Elijah replied to the captain, ⁷  “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down ⁸  from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

2 Kings 3:14

3:14 Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all ⁹  lives (whom I serve), ¹⁰  if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah, ¹¹  I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you. ¹² 

[7:4]  ¹ tn Heb “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city and we will die there.”

[7:4]  ² tn Heb “fall.”

[7:4]  ³ tn Heb “keep us alive.”

[7:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “we will die.” The paraphrastic translation attempts to bring out the logical force of their reasoning.

[2:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “You have made difficult [your] request.”

[1:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”

[1:10]  ¹⁰ tn Wordplay contributes to the irony here. The king tells Elijah to “come down” (Hebrew יָרַד, yarad), but Elijah calls fire down (יָרַד) on the arrogant king’s officer.

[3:14]  ¹³ tn Traditionally “the Lord of hosts.”

[3:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

[3:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”

[3:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”