Discovery Box2 Kings 1:13 
Context1:13 The king 1 sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell 2 on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, “Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.
2 Kings 3:11
Context3:11 Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the Lord here that we might seek the Lord’s direction?” 3 One of the servants of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shapat is here; he used to be Elijah’s servant.” 4
2 Kings 4:42
Context4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet 5 – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. 6 Elisha 7 said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”
2 Kings 5:13
Context5:13 His servants approached and said to him, “O master, 8 if the prophet had told you to do some difficult task, 9 you would have been willing to do it. 10 It seems you should be happy that he simply said, “Wash and you will be healed.” 11
2 Kings 5:15
Context5:15 He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman 12 came and stood before him. He said, “For sure 13 I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.”
2 Kings 7:2
Context7:2 An officer who was the king’s right-hand man 14 responded to the prophet, 15 “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” 16 Elisha 17 said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!” 18
2 Kings 7:17
Context7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man 19 at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. 20 This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. 21
2 Kings 7:19
Context7:19 But the officer replied to the prophet, “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” 22 Elisha 23 said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!” 24
2 Kings 9:6
Context9:6 So Jehu 25 got up and went inside. Then the prophet 26 poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I have designated you as king over the Lord’s people Israel.
2 Kings 14:25
Context14:25 He restored the border of Israel from Lebo Hamath in the north to the sea of the Arabah in the south, 27 in accordance with the word of the Lord God of Israel announced through 28 his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.
2 Kings 20:1
Context20:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. 29 The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’” 30
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “went up and approached and kneeled.”
3 tn Heb “that we might inquire of the
4 tn Heb “who poured water on the hands of Elijah.” This refers to one of the typical tasks of a servant.
5 tn Heb “man of God.”
6 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.
7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 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.
9 tn Heb “a great thing.”
10 tn Heb “would you not do [it]?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you would.”
11 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”).
12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
13 tn Heb “look.”
14 tn Heb “the officer on whose hand the king leans.”
15 tn Heb “man of God.”
16 tn Heb “the
17 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
18 tn Heb “you will not eat from there.”
19 tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”
20 tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”
21 tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”
22 tn Heb “the
23 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
24 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.
25 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
26 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
27 tn The phrases “in the north” and “in the south” are added in the translation for clarification.
28 tn Heb “which he spoke by the hand of.”
29 tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying.”
30 tn Heb “will not live.”
