Discovery Box2 Kings 6:32 
Context6:32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. 1 The king 2 sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, 3 Elisha 4 said to the leaders, 5 “Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?” 6 Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.” 7
2 Kings 8:5
Context8:5 While Gehazi 8 was telling the king how Elisha 9 had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. 10 Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”
1 tn Heb “and the elders were sitting with him.”
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “sent a man from before him, before the messenger came to him.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “elders.”
6 tn Heb “Do you see that this son of an assassin has sent to remove my head?”
7 tn Heb “Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Heb “and look, the woman whose son he had brought back to life was crying out to the king for her house and her field.”
sn The legal background of the situation is uncertain. For a discussion of possibilities, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 87-88.
