2 Raja-raja 8:5-7

8:5 While Gehazi ¹  was telling the king how Elisha ²  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. ³  Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!” 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.”

Elisha Meets with Hazael

8:7 Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king ⁶  was told, “The prophet ⁷  has come here.”

[8:5]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

[8:5]  ³ 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.

[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.”

[8:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “man of God” (also a second time in this verse and in v. 11).