5:8 When Elisha the prophet 1 heard that the king had torn his clothes, he sent this message to the king, “Why did you tear your clothes? Send him 2 to me so he may know there is a prophet in Israel.”
1 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 15, 20).
2 tn Heb “Let him come.”
3 tn Heb “the
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “you will not eat from there.”
tn In the Hebrew text vv. 18-19a are one lengthy sentence, “When the man of God spoke to the king…, the officer replied to the man of God, ‘Look…so soon?’” The translation divides this sentence up for stylistic reasons.