Discovery Box2 Kings 4:9 
Context4:9 She said to her husband, “Look, I’m sure 1 that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet. 2
2 Kings 4:16
Context4:16 He said, “About this time next year 3 you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”
2 Kings 4:21-22
Context4:21 She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s 4 bed. She shut the door behind her and left. 4:22 She called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”
2 Kings 5:3
Context5:3 She told her mistress, “If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria! 5 Then he would cure him of his skin disease.”
2 Kings 6:9-10
Context6:9 But the prophet sent this message to the king of Israel, “Make sure you don’t pass through this place because Syria is invading there.” 6:10 So the king of Israel sent a message to the place the prophet had pointed out, warning it 6 to be on its guard. This happened on several occasions. 7
2 Kings 8:2
Context8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said. 8 She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
2 Kings 8:4
Context8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s 9 servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.”
2 Kings 8:7
Context8:7 Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king 10 was told, “The prophet 11 has come here.”
2 Kings 19:2
Context19:2 He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, 12 clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:
2 Kings 20:11
Context20:11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord 13 made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz. 14
1 tn Heb “I know.”
2 tn Heb “holy man of God.”
3 tn Heb “at this appointed time, at the time [when it is] reviving.” For a discussion of the second phrase see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.
4 tn Heb “man of God’s.”
5 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
6 tn The vav + perfect here indicates action contemporary with the preceding main verb (“sent”). See IBHS 533-34 §32.2.3e.
7 tn Heb “and the king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God spoke to him, and he warned it and he guarded himself there, not once and not twice.”
8 tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”
9 tn Heb “man of God’s.”
10 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 tn Heb “man of God” (also a second time in this verse and in v. 11).
12 tn Heb “elders of the priests.”
13 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
14 tn Heb “on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.”
sn These steps probably functioned as a type of sundial. See HALOT 614 s.v. מַעֲלָה and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 256.
