Discovery Box2 Kings 4:42 
Context4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet 1 – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. 2 Elisha 3 said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”
2 Kings 25:17
Context25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet 4 high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet 5 high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.
2 Kings 25:27
Context25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh 6 day of the twelfth month, 7 King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 8 King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 9 from prison.
1 tn Heb “man of God.”
2 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.
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.
5 tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”
6 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
7 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561
8 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
9 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.
