Discovery Box2 Kings 1:9-10 
Context1:9 The king 1 sent a captain and his fifty soldiers 2 to retrieve Elijah. 3 The captain 4 went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. 5 He told him, “Prophet, 6 the king says, ‘Come down!’” 1:10 Elijah replied to the captain, 7 “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down 8 from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.
2 Kings 4:16
Context4:16 He said, “About this time next year 9 you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”
2 Kings 5:14
Context5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. 10 His skin became as smooth as a young child’s 11 and he was healed.
2 Kings 5:20
Context5:20 Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought, 12 “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. 13 As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.”
2 Kings 6:15
Context6:15 The prophet’s 14 attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha, 15 “Oh no, my master! What will we do?”
2 Kings 7:17
Context7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man 16 at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. 17 This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. 18
2 Kings 23:17
Context23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet 19 who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “officer of fifty and his fifty.”
3 tn Heb “to him.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the captain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.
6 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 10, 11, 12, 13).
7 tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”
8 tn Wordplay contributes to the irony here. The king tells Elijah to “come down” (Hebrew יָרַד, yarad), but Elijah calls fire down (יָרַד) on the arrogant king’s officer.
9 tn Heb “at this appointed time, at the time [when it is] reviving.” For a discussion of the second phrase see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.
10 tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”
11 tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”
12 tn Heb “said” (i.e., to himself).
13 tn Heb “Look, my master spared this Syrian Naaman by not taking from his hand what he brought.”
14 tn Heb “man of God’s.”
15 tn Heb “his young servant said to him.”
16 tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”
17 tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”
18 tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”
19 tn Heb “man of God.”
