2 Kings 9:4

Geneva Bible

So the seruat of ye Prophet gate him to Ramoth Gilead.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead.

Hebrew Names Version
So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramot-Gil`ad.

King James Version
So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead.

English Standard Version
So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

New Century Version
So the young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth in Gilead.

New English Translation
So the young prophet went to Ramoth Gilead.

Amplified Bible
So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

New American Standard Bible
So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

Legacy Standard Bible
So the young man—the young man of the prophet—went to Ramoth-gilead.

Contemporary English Version
The young prophet left for Ramoth.

Complete Jewish Bible
So the young prophet left for Ramot-Gil‘ad.

Darby Translation
And the young man, the young prophet, went to Ramoth-Gilead.

Easy-to-Read Version
So this young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead.

George Lamsa Translation
So the young prophet went to Ramath-gilead.

Good News Translation
So the young prophet went to Ramoth,

Lexham English Bible
So the young man, servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-Gilead.

Literal Translation
And the young man went, the servant of the prophet, to Ramoth-gilead.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the prophetes yonge man, the childe wente his waye vnto Ramoth in Gilead.

American Standard Version
So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

Bible in Basic English
So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so the seruaunt of the prophete gat him to Ramoth Gilead:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

King James Version (1611)
So the yong man, euen the yong man the Prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the young man the prophet went to Remmoth Galaad.

English Revised Version
So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth–gilead.

Berean Standard Bible
So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the yong wexynge man, the child of the prophete, yede in to Ramoth of Galaad, and entride thidur.

Young's Literal Translation
And the young man goeth -- the young man the prophet -- to Ramoth-Gilead,

Update Bible Version
So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

Webster's Bible Translation
So the young man, [even] the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

World English Bible
So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

New King James Version
So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead.

New Living Translation
So the young prophet did as he was told and went to Ramoth-gilead.

New Life Bible
So the young servant of the man of God went to Ramoth-gilead.

New Revised Standard
So the young man, the young prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the young man went his way - the young man the prophet - unto Ramoth-gilead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went away to Ramoth Galaad,

Revised Standard Version
So the young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

THE MESSAGE
The young prophet went to Ramoth Gilead. On arrival he found the army officers all sitting around. He said, "I have a matter of business with you, officer." Jehu said, "Which one of us?" "With you, officer."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Elisha the Prophet called one of ye children of the Prophets, and sayde vnto him, Gird thy loynes and take this boxe of oyle in thine hand and get thee to Ramoth Gilead. ² And when thou commest thither, looke where is Iehu ye sonne of Iehoshaphat, the sonne of Nimshi, and go, and make him arise vp from among his brethren, and leade him to a secret chamber. ³ Then take the boxe of oyle and powre it on his head, and say, Thus sayth the Lorde, I haue anointed thee for King ouer Israel. then open the doore, and flee without any tarying. ⁴ So the seruat of ye Prophet gate him to Ramoth Gilead. ⁵ And when he came in, behold, the captaines of the armie were sitting. And he sayde, I haue a message to thee, O captaine. And Iehu sayd, Vnto which of all vs? And he answered, To thee, O captaine. ⁶ And he arose, and went into the house, and he powred the oyle on his head and sayde vnto him, Thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel, I haue anointed thee for King ouer the people of the Lord, euen ouer Israel. ⁷ And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may auenge the blood of my seruants the Prophets, and the blood of al the seruants of the Lord of the hand of Iezebel. ⁸ For the whole house of Ahab shalbe destroied: and I will cut off from Ahab, him that maketh water against the wall, as well him that is shut vp, as him that is left in Israel. ⁹ And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the sonne of Ahiiah. ¹⁰ And the dogges shall eate Iezebel in the fielde of Izreel, and there shalbe none to burie her. And he opened the doore, and fled.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the young man: Hannaâr hannavee, not as some would render, "the servant of the prophet," but, as correctly rendered by our venerable translators, "the young man, the prophet;" for הנער, hannaâr, "the young man," is not in regimine, but in appositione, with הנביא, hannavee, "the prophet." 2 Kings 9:4

Cross-References

Genesis 9:10
And with euery liuing creature that is with you, with the foule, with the cattell, and with euery beast of the earth with you, from all that goe out of the Arke, vnto euery beast of the earth.

Genesis 9:14
And when I shall couer the earth with a cloud, and the bowe shall be seene in the cloude,

Leviticus 3:17
This shalbe a perpetual ordinance for your generations, throughout al your dwellings, so that ye shall eate neither fatte nor blood.

Leviticus 7:26
Neither shall ye eate any blood, either of foule, or of beast in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 19:26
Ye shal not eat the flesh with the blood, ye shall not vse witchcraft, nor obserue times.

Deuteronomy 12:16
Onely ye shal not eat the blood, but powre it vpon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 12:23
Onely bee sure that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou maiest not eate the life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 14:21
Ye shall eate of nothing that dieth alone, but thou shalt giue it vnto the stranger that is within thy gates, yt he may eate it: or thou maiest sell it vnto a stranger: for thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milke.

Deuteronomy 15:23
Onely thou shalt not eate the blood thereof, but powre it vpon the ground as water.

Acts 15:20
But that we send vnto them, that they absteine themselues from filthinesse of idoles, and fornication, and that that is strangled, and from blood.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead. It is repeated, that it might be observed that it was a young man that went, who was more fit for this service than Elisha, partly because of his age, and partly because he would be less known; as also his age is remarked, this being a bold and daring action in a young man to anoint a new king, as well as it was honourable; and moreover, he was not only one of the sons of the prophets, but was a prophet himself, though young, and still a more fit person for such a service; though the Targum is, a young man, a disciple of the prophets.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 9:4. The young man the prophet — This should be translated, The servant of the prophet; that is, the servant which Elisha now had in place of Gehazi.