2 Kings 2:3
2:3 Some members of the prophetic guild 1 in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” 2 He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”
2 Kings 2:5
2:5 Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”
2 Kings 2:23
2:23 He went up from there to Bethel. 3 As he was traveling up the road, some young boys 4 came out of the city and made fun of him, saying, “Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!”
2 Kings 3:22
3:22 When they got up early the next morning, the sun was shining on the water. To the Moabites, who were some distance away, the water looked red like blood.
2 Kings 4:40
4:40 The stew was poured out 5 for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out, “Death is in the pot, O prophet!” They could not eat it.
2 Kings 4:43
4:43 But his attendant said, “How can I feed a hundred men with this?” 6 He replied, “Set it before the people so they may eat, for this is what the Lord says, ‘They will eat and have some left over.’” 7
2 Kings 14:14
14:14 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages. 8 Then he went back to Samaria. 9 (
1 tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”
2 tn Heb “from your head.” The same expression occurs in v. 5.
3 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
4 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.
5 tn Heb “and they poured out [the stew].” The plural subject is probably indefinite.
6 tn Heb “How can I set this before a hundred men?”
7 tn The verb forms are infinitives absolute (Heb “eating and leaving over”) and have to be translated in light of the context.
8 tn Heb “the sons of the pledges.”
9 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.