Discovery Box2 Kings 4:7 
Context4:7 She went and told the prophet. 1 He said, “Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit.”
2 Kings 4:42
ContextElisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People
4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet 2 – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. 3 Elisha 4 said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”
1 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 16, 22, 25, 27 [twice]).
2 tn Heb “man of God.”
3 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.
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
