2 Kings 5:13

5:13 His servants approached and said to him, “O master,¹ if the prophet had told you to do some difficult task,² you would have been willing to do it.³ It seems you should be happy that he simply said, “Wash and you will be healed.”⁴

2 Kings 8:1

Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman

8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while,⁵ for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

2 Kings 11:15

11:15 Jehoiada the priest ordered the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army,⁶ “Bring her outside the temple to the guards.⁷ Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord’s temple.⁸

¹tn 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.

²tn Heb “a great thing.”

³tn Heb “would you not do [it]?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you would.”

⁴tn 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”).

⁵tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”

⁶tn The Hebrew text also has, “and said to them.” This is redundant in English and has not been translated.

⁷tn Heb “ranks.”

⁸tn Heb “for the priest had said, ‘Let her not be put to death in the house of the Lord.’”