2 Raja-raja 8:4-5

8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s ¹  servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.” 8:5 While Gehazi ²  was telling the king how Elisha ³  had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. ⁴  Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”

[8:4]  ¹ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

[8:5]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “and look, the woman whose son he had brought back to life was crying out to the king for her house and her field.”

[8:5]  sn The legal background of the situation is uncertain. For a discussion of possibilities, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 87-88.