4:1 Now a wife of one of the prophets 1 appealed 2 to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. 3 Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”
7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man 4 at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. 5 This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. 6
1 tn Heb “a wife from among the wives of the sons of the prophets.”
2 tn Or “cried out.”
3 tn Heb “your servant feared the
4 tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”
5 tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”
6 tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”
7 tn Heb “and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests summon to me.”
8 tn Heb “acted with deception [or, ‘trickery’].”
9 tn Heb “read in their ears.”