2 Kings 6:12
Good News Translation
One of them answered, "No one is, Your Majesty. The prophet Elisha tells the king of Israel what you say even in the privacy of your own room."

New Revised Standard Version
Then one of his officers said, “No one, my lord king. It is Elisha, the prophet in Israel, who tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber.”

Contemporary English Version
"None of us, Your Majesty," one of them answered. "It's an Israelite named Elisha. He's a prophet, so he can tell his king everything--even what you say in your own room."

New American Bible
“No one, my lord king,” answered one of the officers. “The Israelite prophet Elisha can tell the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And one of his servants said: No one, my lord, O king: but Eliseus, the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all the words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And one of his servants said: No one, my lord, O king: but Eliseus, the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all the words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.

None [heb] No

2 Kings 5:3,8,13-15 And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had been with the prophet that is in Samaria: he would certainly have healed him of the leprosy which he hath. . . .

Amos 3:7 For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

telleth

2 Kings 6:9,10 And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that thou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush. . . .

Isaiah 29:15 Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel from the Lord: and their works are in the dark, and they say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us?

Jeremiah 23:23,24 Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? . . .

Daniel 2:22,23,28-30,47 He revealeth deep and hidden things, and knoweth what is in darkness: and light is with him. . . .

Daniel 4:9-18 Its leaves were most beautiful, and its fruit exceeding much: and in it was food for all: under it dwelt cattle and beasts, and in the branches thereof the fowls of the air had their abode: and all flesh did eat of it. . . .

thy bed chamber

Psalm 139:1-4 Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me: . . .

Ecclesiastes 10:20 Detract not the king, no not in thy thought; and speak not evil of the rich man in thy private chamber: because even the birds of the air will carry thy voice, and he that hath wings will tell what thou hast said.

Context
Elisha Captures the Blinded Arameans
11And the heart of the king of Syria, was troubled for this thing. And calling together his servants, he said: Why do you not tell me who it is that betrays me to the king of Israel? 12And one of his servants said: No one, my lord, O king: but Eliseus, the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all the words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.13And he said to them: Go, and see where he is: that I may send and take him. And they told him: saying: Behold he is in Dothan.…
Cross References
Exodus 8:3
And the river shall bring forth an abundance of frogs; which shall come up and enter into thy house, and thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the houses of thy servants, and to thy people, and into thy ovens, and into the remains of thy meats:

2 Kings 6:9
And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that thou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush.

2 Kings 6:11
And the heart of the king of Syria, was troubled for this thing. And calling together his servants, he said: Why do you not tell me who it is that betrays me to the king of Israel?

2 Kings 6:13
And he said to them: Go, and see where he is: that I may send and take him. And they told him: saying: Behold he is in Dothan.

Ecclesiastes 10:20
Detract not the king, no not in thy thought; and speak not evil of the rich man in thy private chamber: because even the birds of the air will carry thy voice, and he that hath wings will tell what thou hast said.

2 Kings 6:11
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