2 Kings 4:42

Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People

4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet ¹  – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. ²  Elisha ³  said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”

2 Kings 25:17

25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet ⁴  high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet ⁵  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ⁶  day of the twelfth month, ⁷  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁸  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ⁹  from prison.

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¹ tn Heb “man of God.”

² tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

⁵ tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”

⁶ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

⁷ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁸ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

⁹ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.