2 Raja-raja 6:32

6:32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. ¹  The king ²  sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, ³  Elisha ⁴  said to the leaders, ⁵  “Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?” ⁶  Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.” ⁷ 

2 Raja-raja 7:4

7:4 If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, ⁸  and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect ⁹  to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, ¹⁰  we’ll live; if they kill us – well, we were going to die anyway.” ¹¹ 

[6:32]  ¹ tn Heb “and the elders were sitting with him.”

[6:32]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:32]  ³ tn Heb “sent a man from before him, before the messenger came to him.”

[6:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “elders.”

[6:32]  ⁶ tn Heb “Do you see that this son of an assassin has sent to remove my head?”

[6:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”

[7:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city and we will die there.”

[7:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “fall.”

[7:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “keep us alive.”

[7:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “we will die.” The paraphrastic translation attempts to bring out the logical force of their reasoning.