2 Kings 1:11
Context| NETBible | The king 1 sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, 2 “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’” 3 |
| XREF | Nu 16:41; 1Sa 6:9; 1Sa 22:17-19; Pr 29:12; Isa 26:11; Isa 32:7; Jer 5:3; Mt 2:16; Lu 22:63,64; Joh 18:5-12; Ac 4:16,17 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity. 2 tc The MT reads, “he answered and said to him.” The verb “he answered” (וַיַּעַן, vayya’an) is probably a corruption of “he went up” (וַיַּעַל, vayya’al). See v. 9. 3 sn In this second panel of the three-paneled narrative, the king and his captain are more arrogant than before. The captain uses a more official sounding introduction (“this is what the king says”) and the king adds “at once” to the command. |
