2 Kings 5:8
And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
KJV
Quod cum audisset Eliseus vir Dei, scidisse videlicet regem Israël vestimenta sua, misit ad eum, dicens : Quare scidisti vestimenta tua ? veniat ad me, et sciat esse prophetam in Israël.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς ἤκουσεν Ἐλεισαῖε ὅτι διέρρηξεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἰσραὴλ τὰ ἱμάτια ἑαυτοῦ, καὶ ἀπέστειλεν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα Ἰσραὴλ λέγων Ἵνα τί διέρρηξας τὰ ἱμάτιά σου; ἐλθέτω δὴ πρὸς μὲ Ναιμὰν καὶ γνώτω ὅτι ἔστιν προφήτης ἐν Ἰσραήλ.
LXX
And it was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
ASV
וַ/יְהִ֞י כִּ/שְׁמֹ֣עַ אֱלִישָׁ֣ע אִישׁ הָ/אֱלֹהִ֗ים כִּֽי קָרַ֤ע מֶֽלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶת בְּגָדָ֔י/ו וַ/יִּשְׁלַח֙ אֶל הַ/מֶּ֣לֶךְ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר לָ֥/מָּה קָרַ֖עְתָּ בְּגָדֶ֑י/ךָ יָבֹֽא נָ֣א אֵלַ֔/י וְ/יֵדַ֕ע כִּ֛י יֵ֥שׁ נָבִ֖יא בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Hebrew
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In this verse
In the original Hebrew
20 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. But now let us see what Asterius the Sophist says, the retained pleader for the heresy. In imitation then of the Jews so far, he writes as follows; 'It is very plain that He has said, that He is in the Father and the Father again in Him, for this reason, that neither the word on which He was discoursing is, as He says, His own, but the Father's, nor the works belong to Him, …
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 5:15 — And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray t
- 2Kgs 6:12 — And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.