2 Kings 4:35

4:35 Elisha ¹  went back and walked around in the house. ²  Then he got up on the bed again ³  and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

2 Kings 5:14

5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. ⁴  His skin became as smooth as a young child’s ⁵  and he was healed.

2 Kings 13:25

13:25 Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash took back from ⁶  Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities.

2 Kings 19:25

19:25 ⁷ Certainly you must have heard! ⁸ 

Long ago I worked it out,

In ancient times I planned ⁹  it;

and now I am bringing it to pass.

The plan is this:

Fortified cities will crash

into heaps of ruins. ¹⁰ 

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¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”

³ tn Heb “and he went up.”

⁴ tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”

⁵ tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”

⁶ tn Heb “from the hand of.”

⁷ tn Having quoted the Assyrian king’s arrogant words in vv. 23-24, the Lord now speaks to the king.

⁸ tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say.

⁹ tn Heb “formed.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and it is to cause to crash into heaps of ruins fortified cities.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb תְּהִי (tÿhi) is the implied plan, referred to in the preceding lines with third feminine singular pronominal suffixes.