2 Kings 2:15

2:15 When the members of the prophetic guild in Jericho,¹ who were standing at a distance,² saw him do this, they said, “The spirit that energized Elijah³ rests upon Elisha.” They went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.

2 Kings 4:13

4:13 Elisha said to Gehazi,⁴ “Tell her, ‘Look, you have treated us with such great respect.⁵ What can I do for you? Can I put in a good word for you with the king or the commander of the army?’” She replied, “I’m quite secure.”⁶

2 Kings 6:22

6:22 He replied, “Do not strike them down! You did not capture them with your sword or bow, so what gives you the right to strike them down?⁷ Give them some food and water, so they can eat and drink and then go back to their master.”

2 Kings 6:32

6:32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders.⁸ The king⁹ sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived,¹⁰ Elisha¹¹ said to the leaders,¹² “Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?”¹³ Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.”¹⁴

2 Kings 18:14

18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty.¹⁵ If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.”¹⁶ So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents¹⁷ of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 22:13

22:13 “Go, seek an oracle from¹⁸ the Lord for me and the people – for all Judah. Find out about¹⁹ the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us,²⁰ because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this scroll by doing all that it instructs us to do.”²¹

¹map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

²tn Heb “and the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho, [who were standing] opposite, saw him and said.”

³tn Heb “the spirit of Elijah.”

⁴tn Heb “he said to him.”

⁵tn Heb “you have turned trembling to us with all this trembling.” The exaggerated language is probably idiomatic. The point seems to be that she has taken great pains or gone out of her way to be kind to them. Her concern was a sign of her respect for the prophetic office.

⁶tn Heb “Among my people I am living.” This answer suggests that she has security within the context of her family.

⁷tn Heb “Are [they] ones you captured with your sword or your bow (that) you can strike (them) down?”

⁸tn Heb “and the elders were sitting with him.”

⁹tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰tn Heb “sent a man from before him, before the messenger came to him.”

¹¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹²tn Heb “elders.”

¹³tn Heb “Do you see that this son of an assassin has sent to remove my head?”

¹⁴tn Heb “Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”

¹⁵tn Or “I have done wrong.”

¹⁶tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

¹⁷tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.

¹⁸tn Or “inquire of.”

¹⁹tn Heb “concerning.”

²⁰tn Heb “for great is the anger of the Lord which has been ignited against us.”

²¹tn Heb “by doing all that is written concerning us.” Perhaps עָלֵינוּ (’alenu), “concerning us,” should be altered to עָלָיו (’alav), “upon it,” in which case one could translate, “by doing all that is written in it.”