4:25 So she went to visit 1 the prophet at Mount Carmel. When he 2 saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, it’s the Shunammite woman.
1 tn Heb “went and came.”
2 tn Heb “the man of God.” The phrase has been replaced by the relative pronoun “he” in the translation for stylistic reasons.
3 sn This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mashÿkhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mashÿkhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.