Discovery Box2 Kings 1:9 
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!’”
2 Kings 9:5
Context9:5 When he arrived, the officers of the army were sitting there. 7 So he said, “I have a message for you, O officer.” 8 Jehu asked, “For which one of us?” 9 He replied, “For you, O officer.”
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 “and he arrived and look, the officers of the army were sitting.”
8 tn Heb “[there is] a word for me to you, O officer.”
9 tn Heb “To whom from all of us?”
