2 Kings 1:9-10

1:9 The king ¹  sent a captain and his fifty soldiers ²  to retrieve Elijah. ³  The captain ⁴  went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. ⁵  He told him, “Prophet, ⁶  the king says, ‘Come down!’” 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 4:16

4:16 He said, “About this time next year ⁹  you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”

2 Kings 5:14

5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. ¹⁰  His skin became as smooth as a young child’s ¹¹  and he was healed.

2 Kings 5:20

5:20 Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought, ¹²  “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. ¹³  As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.”

2 Kings 6:15

6:15 The prophet’s ¹⁴  attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha, ¹⁵  “Oh no, my master! What will we do?”

2 Kings 7:17

7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man ¹⁶  at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. ¹⁷  This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. ¹⁸ 

2 Kings 23:17

23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet ¹⁹  who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

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¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “officer of fifty and his fifty.”

³ tn Heb “to him.”

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the captain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.

⁶ tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 10, 11, 12, 13).

⁷ tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”

⁸ 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.

⁹ tn Heb “at this appointed time, at the time [when it is] reviving.” For a discussion of the second phrase see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.

¹⁰ tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”

¹² tn Heb “said” (i.e., to himself).

¹³ tn Heb “Look, my master spared this Syrian Naaman by not taking from his hand what he brought.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “his young servant said to him.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “man of God.”