3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here? 1 Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”
1 tn Or “What do we have in common?” The text reads literally, “What to me and to you?”
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn The phrases “in the north” and “in the south” are added in the translation for clarification.
5 tn Heb “which he spoke by the hand of.”