Discovery Box2 Kings 8:1 
Context8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, 1 for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”
2 Kings 25:25
Context25:25 But in the seventh month 2 Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, 3 came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, 4 as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.
1 tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”
2 sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; Jer 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; Jer 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (Jer 40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (Jer 52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).
3 tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”
4 tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”
