2 Kings 9:4

New King James Version

So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went 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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So the seruat of ye Prophet gate him 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 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 And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, "Get yourself ready, take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead. ² Now when you arrive at that place, look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, and go in and make him rise up from among his associates, and take him to an inner room. ³ Then take the flask of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, "Thus says the LORD: "I have anointed you king over Israel."' Then open the door and flee, and do not delay." ⁴ So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead. ⁵ And when he arrived, there were the captains of the army sitting; and he said, "I have a message for you, Commander." Jehu said, "For which one of us?" And he said, "For you, Commander." ⁶ Then he arose and went into the house. And he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel. ⁷ You shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. ⁸ For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab all the males in Israel, both bond and free. ⁹ So I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah. ¹⁰ The dogs shall eat Jezebel on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her."' And he opened the door 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 every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.

Genesis 9:14
It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;

Leviticus 3:17
"This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood."'

Leviticus 7:26
Moreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, whether of bird or beast.

Leviticus 19:26
"You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying.

Deuteronomy 12:16
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat.

Deuteronomy 14:21
"You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 15:23
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water.

Acts 15:20
but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, [fn] from things 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.