Discovery Box2 Kings 6:5 
Context6:5 As one of them was felling a log, the ax head 1 dropped into the water. He shouted, “Oh no, 2 my master! It was borrowed!”
2 Kings 6:31
Context6:31 Then he said, “May God judge me severely 3 if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!” 4
2 Kings 19:21
Context19:21 This is what the Lord says about him: 5
“The virgin daughter Zion 6
despises you, she makes fun of you;
Daughter Jerusalem
shakes her head after you. 7
1 tn Heb “iron.”
2 tn Or “ah.”
3 tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”
4 tn Heb “if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat stays on him today.”
5 tn Heb “this is the word which the
6 sn Zion (Jerusalem) is pictured here as a young, vulnerable daughter whose purity is being threatened by the would-be Assyrian rapist. The personification hints at the reality which the young girls of the city would face if the Assyrians conquer it.
7 sn Shaking the head was a mocking gesture of derision.
