8:7 Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king 5 was told, “The prophet 6 has come here.”
1 tn Heb “I know.”
2 tn Heb “holy man of God.”
3 tn Heb “Call for this Shunammite woman.”
4 tn Heb “and he called for her and she stood before him.”
5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “man of God” (also a second time in this verse and in v. 11).