2 Kings 1:9

1:9 The king¹ sent a captain and his fifty soldiers² to retrieve Elijah.³ The captain⁴ 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!’”

2 Kings 1:11

1:11 The king⁷ sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him,⁸ “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’”⁹

2 Kings 2:2

2:2 Elijah told Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel.”¹⁰ But Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

2 Kings 4:7

4:7 She went and told the prophet.¹¹ He said, “Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit.”

2 Kings 4:29

4:29 Elisha¹² told Gehazi, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff,¹³ and go! Don’t stop to exchange greetings with anyone!¹⁴ Place my staff on the child’s face.”

2 Kings 4:31

4:31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha¹⁵ he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

2 Kings 4:38

Elisha Makes a Meal Edible

4:38 Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him¹⁶ and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire¹⁷ and boil some stew for the prophets.”¹⁸

2 Kings 7:15

7:15 So they tracked them¹⁹ as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste.²⁰ The scouts²¹ went back and told the king.

2 Kings 7:18

7:18 The prophet told the king, “Two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of finely milled flour for a shekel; this will happen about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria.”

2 Kings 8:8

8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift²² and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him,²³ ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Kings 9:1

Jehu Becomes King

9:1 Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild²⁴ and told him, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container²⁵ of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

2 Kings 9:36

9:36 When they went back and told him, he said, “The Lord’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned,²⁶ ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.

2 Kings 10:8

10:8 The messenger came and told Jehu,²⁷ “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” Jehu²⁸ said, “Stack them in two piles at the entrance of the city gate until morning.”

2 Kings 10:24

10:24 They went inside to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside. He had told them, “If any of the men inside get away, you will pay with your lives!”²⁹

2 Kings 18:25

18:25 Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March³⁰ up against this land and destroy it.’”’”³¹

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

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

³tn Heb “to him.”

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

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

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

⁷tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸tc The MT reads, “he answered and said to him.” The verb “he answered” (וַיַּעַן, vayya’an) is probably a corruption of “he went up” (וַיַּעַל, vayya’al). See v. 9.

⁹sn In this second panel of the three-paneled narrative, the king and his captain are more arrogant than before. The captain uses a more official sounding introduction (“this is what the king says”) and the king adds “at once” to the command.

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¹¹tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 16, 22, 25, 27 [twice]).

¹²tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³tn Heb “take my staff in your hand.”

¹⁴tn Heb “If you meet a man, do not greet him with a blessing; if a man greets you with a blessing, do not answer.”

¹⁵tn Heb “to meet him.”

¹⁶tn Heb “the sons of the prophets were sitting before him.”

¹⁷tn The words “the fire” are added for clarification.

¹⁸tn Heb “sons of the prophets.”

¹⁹tn Heb “went after.”

²⁰tn Heb “and look, all the road was full of clothes and equipment that Syria had thrown away in their haste.”

²¹tn Or “messengers.”

²²tn The Hebrew text also has “in your hand.”

²³tn Heb “Inquire of the Lord through him, saying.”

²⁴tn Heb “one of the sons of the prophets.”

²⁵tn Or “flask.”

²⁶tn Heb “It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, saying.”

²⁷tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁸tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁹tn Heb “The man who escapes from the men whom I am bringing into your hands, [it will be] his life in place of his life.”

³⁰tn Heb “Go.”

³¹sn In v. 25 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 22. He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commissioned Assyria as his instrument of discipline and judgment.