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 6:22
Context6:22 He replied, “Do not strike them down! You did not capture them with your sword or bow, so what gives you the right to strike them down? 4 Give them some food and water, so they can eat and drink and then go back to their master.”
2 Kings 7:2
Context7:2 An officer who was the king’s right-hand man 5 responded to the prophet, 6 “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” 7 Elisha 8 said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!” 9
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?” 10 Elisha 11 said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!” 12
2 Kings 18:27
Context18:27 But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. 13 His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.” 14
2 Kings 18:31
Context18:31 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. 15 Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
2 Kings 19:29
Context19:29 16 This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: 17 This year you will eat what grows wild, 18 and next year 19 what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce. 20
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 “Are [they] ones you captured with your sword or your bow (that) you can strike (them) down?”
5 tn Heb “the officer on whose hand the king leans.”
6 tn Heb “man of God.”
7 tn Heb “the
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “you will not eat from there.”
10 tn Heb “the
11 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 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.
13 tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.
14 tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”
sn The chief adviser alludes to the horrible reality of siege warfare, when the starving people in the besieged city would resort to eating and drinking anything to stay alive.
15 tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”
16 tn At this point the word concerning the king of Assyria (vv. 21-28) ends and the Lord again directly addresses Hezekiah and the people (see v. 20).
17 tn Heb “and this is your sign.” In this case the אוֹת (’ot), “sign,” is a future confirmation of God’s intervention designated before the actual intervention takes place. For similar “signs” see Exod 3:12 and Isa 7:14-25.
18 sn This refers to crops that grew up on their own (that is, without cultivation) from the seed planted in past years.
19 tn Heb “and in the second year.”
20 tn The four plural imperatival verb forms in v. 29b are used rhetorically. The Lord commands the people to plant, harvest, etc. to emphasize the certainty of restored peace and prosperity. See IBHS 572 §34.4.c.
