Then renders well the common Hebrew conjunction since it introduces the next event in the story here.

He found: The pronoun he refers to the prophet in verse 35, who wanted someone to strike him, so Good News Translation says “this same prophet.”

Another man: There is no indication that this man was a fellow prophet like the one who refused the first prophet’s request (but see the comments on verse 35). In all likelihood he was just a passing stranger.

Strike me, I pray: See the comments on verse 35. The prophet wanted someone to strike him so that the king would think he had been in the battle.

The man struck him, smiting and wounding him: The words struck and smiting translate the same Hebrew verb and refer to the same action, so in some languages these two verb are rendered by a single verb. Smiting and wounding him is literally “smiting and wounding.” Revised Standard Version adds the direct object pronoun him as the sense requires.

Quoted with permission from Omanson, Roger L. and Ellington, John E. A Handbook on 1-2 Kings, Volume 1. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2008. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .