Discovery Box2 Kings 5:13 
Context5:13 His servants approached and said to him, “O master, 1 if the prophet had told you to do some difficult task, 2 you would have been willing to do it. 3 It seems you should be happy that he simply said, “Wash and you will be healed.” 4
2 Kings 10:6
Context10:6 He wrote them a second letter, saying, “If you are really on my side and are willing to obey me, 5 then take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow.” 6 Now the king had seventy sons, and the prominent 7 men of the city were raising them.
1 tn Heb “my father,” reflecting the perspective of each individual servant. To address their master as “father” would emphasize his authority and express their respect. See BDB 3 s.v. אָב and the similar idiomatic use of “father” in 2 Kgs 2:12.
2 tn Heb “a great thing.”
3 tn Heb “would you not do [it]?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you would.”
4 tn Heb “How much more [when] he said, “Wash and be healed.” The second imperative (“be healed”) states the expected result of obeying the first (‘wash”).
5 tn Heb “If you are mine and you are listening to my voice.”
6 sn Jehu’s command is intentionally vague. Does he mean that they should bring the guardians (those who are “heads” over Ahab’s sons) for a meeting, or does he mean that they should bring the literal heads of Ahab’s sons with them? (So LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and some
7 tn Heb “great,” probably in wealth, position, and prestige.
