2 Raja-raja 1:13

1:13 The king ¹  sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell ²  on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, “Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

2 Raja-raja 5:20

5:20 Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought, ³  “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. ⁴  As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.”

2 Raja-raja 18:27

18:27 But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. ⁵  His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.” ⁶ 

[1:13]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:13]  ² tn Heb “went up and approached and kneeled.”

[5:20]  ³ tn Heb “said” (i.e., to himself).

[5:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “Look, my master spared this Syrian Naaman by not taking from his hand what he brought.”

[18:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.

[18:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”

[18:27]  sn The chief adviser alludes to the horrible reality of siege warfare, when the starving people in the besieged city would resort to eating and drinking anything to stay alive.