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 5:13

5:13 His servants approached and said to him, “O master, ⁴  if the prophet had told you to do some difficult task, ⁵  you would have been willing to do it. ⁶  It seems you should be happy that he simply said, “Wash and you will be healed.” ⁷ 

2 Kings 6:22

6:22 He replied, “Do not strike them down! You did not capture them with your sword or bow, so what gives you the right to strike them down? ⁸  Give them some food and water, so they can eat and drink and then go back to their master.”

2 Kings 7:8

7:8 When the men with a skin disease reached the edge of the camp, they entered a tent and had a meal. ⁹  They also took some silver, gold, and clothes and went and hid it all. ¹⁰  Then they went back and entered another tent. They looted it ¹¹  and went and hid what they had taken.

2 Kings 7:13

7:13 One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!) ¹²  Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.” ¹³ 

2 Kings 13:21

13:21 One day some men ¹⁴  were burying a man when they spotted ¹⁵  a raiding party. So they threw the dead man ¹⁶  into Elisha’s tomb. When the body ¹⁷  touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man ¹⁸  came to life and stood on his feet.

2 Kings 25:24

25:24 Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. ¹⁹  He said, “You don’t need to be afraid to submit to the Babylonian officials. Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you.”

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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 “my father,” reflecting the perspective of each individual servant. To address their master as “father” would emphasize his authority and express their respect. See BDB 3 s.v. אָב and the similar idiomatic use of “father” in 2 Kgs 2:12.

⁵ tn Heb “a great thing.”

⁶ tn Heb “would you not do [it]?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you would.”

⁷ tn Heb “How much more [when] he said, “Wash and be healed.” The second imperative (“be healed”) states the expected result of obeying the first (‘wash”).

⁸ tn Heb “Are [they] ones you captured with your sword or your bow (that) you can strike (them) down?”

⁹ tn Heb “they ate and drank.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and they hid [it].”

¹¹ tn Heb “and they took from there.”

¹² tn Heb “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.” The MT is dittographic here; the words “that remain in it. Look they are like all the people of Israel” have been accidentally repeated. The original text read, “Let them take five of the remaining horses that remain in it. Look, they are like all the people of Israel that have come to an end.”

¹³ tn Heb “and let us send so we might see.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and it so happened [that] they.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and look, they saw.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹⁷ tn Heb “the man.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the dead man) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Otherwise the reader might think it was Elisha rather than the unnamed dead man who came back to life.

¹⁹ tn The words “so as to give them…some assurance of safety” are supplied in the translation for clarification.