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 8:6

8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. ⁴  The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, ⁵  “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

2 Raja-raja 25:25

25:25 But in the seventh month ⁶  Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, ⁷  came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, ⁸  as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.

[4:42]  ¹ tn Heb “man of God.”

[4:42]  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.

[4:42]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

[8:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

[25:25]  ⁶ 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).

[25:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”

[25:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”