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 2:9
2:9 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “What can I do for you, 3 before I am taken away from you?” Elisha answered, “May I receive a double portion of the prophetic spirit that energizes you.” 4
2 Kings 4:2
4:2 Elisha said to her, “What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil.”
2 Kings 4:6
4:6 When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons, 5 “Bring me another container.” But he answered her, “There are no more.” Then the olive oil stopped flowing.
2 Kings 5:22
5:22 He answered, “Everything is fine. 6 My master sent me with this message, ‘Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country. 7 Please give them a talent 8 of silver and two suits of clothes.’”
2 Kings 6:28
6:28 Then the king asked her, “What’s your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’
1 tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”
2 tn Heb “from your head.” The same expression occurs in v. 5.
3 tn Heb “Ask! What can I do for you….?”
4 tn Heb “May a double portion of your spirit come to me.”
5 tn Heb “to her son.”
6 tn Heb “peace.”
7 tn Heb “Look now, here, two servants came to me from the Ephraimite hill country, from the sons of the prophets.”
8 tn 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 75 pounds of silver (cf. NCV, NLT, CEV).