2 Raja-raja 4:42

Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People

4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet ¹  – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. ²  Elisha ³  said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”

2 Raja-raja 8:7

Elisha Meets with Hazael

8:7 Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king ⁴  was told, “The prophet ⁵  has come here.”

2 Raja-raja 8:14

8:14 He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad ⁶  asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?” Hazael ⁷  replied, “He told me you would surely recover.”

2 Raja-raja 9:5

9:5 When he arrived, the officers of the army were sitting there. ⁸  So he said, “I have a message for you, O officer.” ⁹  Jehu asked, “For which one of us?” ¹⁰  He replied, “For you, O officer.”

2 Raja-raja 9:34

9:34 He went inside and had a meal. ¹¹  Then he said, “Dispose of this accursed woman’s corpse. Bury her, for after all, she was a king’s daughter.” ¹² 

2 Raja-raja 10:8

10:8 The messenger came and told Jehu, ¹³  “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” Jehu ¹⁴  said, “Stack them in two piles at the entrance of the city gate until morning.”

2 Raja-raja 10:17

10:17 He went to Samaria and exterminated all the members of Ahab’s family who were still alive in Samaria, ¹⁵  just as the Lord had announced to Elijah. ¹⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 15:14

15:14 Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to ¹⁷  Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh. ¹⁸  He killed him and took his place as king.

2 Raja-raja 16:12

16:12 When the king arrived back from Damascus and ¹⁹  saw the altar, he approached it ²⁰  and offered a sacrifice on it. ²¹ 

2 Raja-raja 17:28

17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. ²²  He taught them how to worship ²³  the Lord.

¹ tn Heb “man of God.”

² tn On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see HALOT 148 s.v. בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 59.

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “man of God” (also a second time in this verse and in v. 11).

⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hazael) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “and he arrived and look, the officers of the army were sitting.”

⁹ tn Heb “[there is] a word for me to you, O officer.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “To whom from all of us?”

¹¹ tn Heb “and he went and ate and drank.”

¹² tn Heb “Attend to this accursed woman and bury her for she was the daughter of a king.”

¹³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵ tn Heb “and he struck down all the remaining ones to Ahab in Samaria until he destroyed him.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to Elijah.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “and came to.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “went up from Tirzah and arrived in Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “and the king.”

²⁰ tn Heb “the altar.”

²¹ tn Or “ascended it.”

²² map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

²³ tn Heb “fear.”