Discovery Box2 Kings 2:3 
Context2:3 Some members of the prophetic guild 1 in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” 2 He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”
2 Kings 2:5
Context2:5 Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”
2 Kings 4:29
Context4:29 Elisha 3 told Gehazi, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff, 4 and go! Don’t stop to exchange greetings with anyone! 5 Place my staff on the child’s face.”
2 Kings 8:8
Context8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift 6 and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, 7 ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
2 Kings 9:1
Context9:1 Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild 8 and told him, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container 9 of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.
2 Kings 9:3
Context9:3 Take the container of olive oil, pour it over his head, and say, ‘This is what the Lord says, “I have designated 10 you as king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and run away quickly!” 11
2 Kings 10:10
Context10:10 Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the Lord announced against Ahab’s dynasty has failed to materialize. The Lord had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.” 12
2 Kings 11:6
Context11:6 Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation 13 Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard. 14 You will take turns guarding the palace. 15
2 Kings 17:27
Context17:27 So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you 16 deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” 17
2 Kings 19:7
Context19:7 Look, I will take control of his mind; 18 he will receive 19 a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down 20 with a sword in his own land.”’”
1 tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”
2 tn Heb “from your head.” The same expression occurs in v. 5.
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “take my staff in your hand.”
5 tn Heb “If you meet a man, do not greet him with a blessing; if a man greets you with a blessing, do not answer.”
6 tn The Hebrew text also has “in your hand.”
7 tn Heb “Inquire of the
8 tn Heb “one of the sons of the prophets.”
9 tn Or “flask.”
10 tn Heb “anointed.”
11 tn Heb “and open the door and run away and do not delay.”
12 tn Heb “Know then that there has not fallen from the word of the
13 tn Heb “the gate of Sur” (followed by many English versions) but no such gate is mentioned elsewhere in the OT. The parallel account in 2 Chr 23:5 has “Foundation Gate.” סוּר (sur), “Sur,” may be a corruption of יְסוֹד (yÿsod) “foundation,” involving in part dalet-resh confusion.
14 tn Heb “the runners.”
15 tn The meaning of מַסָּח (massakh) is not certain. The translation above, rather than understanding it as a genitive modifying “house,” takes it as an adverb describing how the groups will guard the palace. See HALOT 605 s.v. מַסָּח for the proposed meaning “alternating” (i.e., “in turns”).
16 tc The second plural subject may refer to the leaders of the Assyrian army. However, some prefer to read “whom I deported,” changing the verb to a first person singular form with a third masculine plural pronominal suffix. This reading has some support from Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic witnesses.
17 tc Heb “and let them go and let them live there, and let him teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” The two plural verbs seem inconsistent with the preceding and following contexts, where only one priest is sent back to Samaria. The singular has the support of Greek, Syriac, and Latin witnesses.
18 tn Heb “I will put in him a spirit.” The precise sense of רוּחַ (ruakh), “spirit,” is uncertain in this context. It may refer to a spiritual being who will take control of his mind (see 1 Kgs 22:19), or it could refer to a disposition of concern and fear. In either case the
19 tn Heb “hear.”
20 tn Heb “cause him to fall,” that is, “kill him.”
