2:23 He went up from there to Bethel. 1 As he was traveling up the road, some young boys 2 came out of the city and made fun of him, saying, “Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!”
4:8 One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent 4 woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. 5 So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal. 6
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 Elisha 7 he told him, “The child did not wake up.”
4:38 Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him 8 and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire 9 and boil some stew for the prophets.” 10
5:8 When Elisha the prophet 12 heard that the king had torn his clothes, he sent this message to the king, “Why did you tear your clothes? Send him 13 to me so he may know there is a prophet in Israel.”
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?”
16:10 When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there. 23 King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design. 24
19:35 That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they 28 got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. 29
1 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
2 tn The word נַעַר (na’ar), here translated “boy,” can refer to a broad age range, including infants as well as young men. But the qualifying term “young” (or “small”) suggests these youths were relatively young. The phrase in question (“young boy”) occurs elsewhere in 1 Sam 20:35; 1 Kgs 3:7 (used by Solomon in an hyperbolic manner); 11:17; 2 Kgs 5:14; and Isa 11:6.
3 tn Heb “to her son.”
4 tn Heb “great,” perhaps “wealthy.”
5 tn Or “she urged him to eat some food.”
6 tn Or “he would turn aside there to eat some food.”
7 tn Heb “to meet him.”
8 tn Heb “the sons of the prophets were sitting before him.”
9 tn The words “the fire” are added for clarification.
10 tn Heb “sons of the prophets.”
11 tn Or “and let them eat.”
12 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 15, 20).
13 tn Heb “Let him come.”
14 tn Heb “man of God’s.”
15 tn Heb “his young servant said to him.”
16 tn Heb “and he arrived and look, the officers of the army were sitting.”
17 tn Heb “[there is] a word for me to you, O officer.”
18 tn Heb “To whom from all of us?”
19 tn Heb “they did not turn away from.”
20 tn Heb “house.”
21 tc Heb “in it he walked.” The singular verb (הָלַךְ, halakh) is probably due to an error of haplography and should be emended to the plural (הָלְכּוּ, halÿku). Note that a vav immediately follows (on the form וְגַם, vÿgam).
22 tn Or “an image of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “the Asherah”; NCV “the Asherah idol.”
sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).
23 tn Heb “in Damascus.”
24 tn Heb “the likeness of the altar and its pattern for all its work.”
25 tn Heb “until.”
26 tn Heb “the
27 tn Heb “just as he said.”
28 tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.
29 tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies.”
30 tn Heb “good.”
31 tn Heb “and he said.” Many English versions translate, “for he thought.” The verb אָמַר (’amar), “say,” is sometimes used of what one thinks (that is, says to oneself). Cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT.
32 tn Heb “Is it not [true] there will be peace and stability in my days?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, there will be peace and stability.”
33 tn Heb “Also Judah I will turn away from my face.”
34 tn Heb “My name will be there.”
35 tn Heb “the entire [group], mighty men, doers of war.”