1 When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, he and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.
2 "Stay here, please," Elijah said to Elisha. "The LORD has sent me on to Bethel." "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live," Elisha replied, "I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel,
3 where the guild prophets went out to Elisha and asked him, "Do you know that the LORD will take your master from over you today?" "Yes, I know it," he replied. "Keep still."
4 Then Elijah said to him, "Stay here, please, Elisha, for the LORD has sent me on to Jericho." "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live," Elisha replied, "I will not leave you."
5 They went on to Jericho, where the guild prophets approached Elisha and asked him, "Do you know that the LORD will take your master from over you today?" "Yes, I know it," he replied. "Keep still."
6 Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here; the LORD has sent me on to the Jordan." "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live," Elisha replied, "I will not leave you." And so the two went on together.
7 Fifty of the guild prophets followed, and when the two stopped at the Jordan, stood facing them at a distance.
8 Elijah took his mantle, rolled it up and struck the water, which divided, and both crossed over on dry ground.
9 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask for whatever I may do for you, before I am taken from you." Elisha answered, "May I receive a double portion of your spirit."
10 "You have asked something that is not easy," he replied. "Still, if you see me taken up from you, your wish will be granted; otherwise not."
11 As they walked on conversing, a flaming chariot and flaming horses came between them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.
12 When Elisha saw it happen he cried out, "My father! my father! Israel's chariots and drivers!" But when he could no longer see him, Elisha gripped his own garment and tore it in two.
13 Then he picked up Elijah's mantle which had fallen from him, and went back and stood at the bank of the Jordan.
14 Wielding the mantle which had fallen from Elijah, he struck the water in his turn and said, "Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?" When Elisha struck the water it divided and he crossed over.
15 The guild prophets in Jericho, who were on the other side, saw him and said, "The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha." They went to meet him, bowing to the ground before him.
16 "Among your servants are fifty brave men," they said. "Let them go in search of your master. Perhaps the spirit of the LORD has carried him away to some mountain or some valley." "Do not send them," he answered.
17 However, they kept urging him, until he was embarrassed and said, "Send them." So they sent the fifty men, who searched for three days without finding him.
18 When they returned to Elisha in Jericho, where he was staying, he said to them, "Did I not tell you not to go?"
19 Once the inhabitants of the city complained to Elisha, "The site of the city is fine indeed, as my lord can see, but the water is bad and the land unfruitful."
20 "Bring me a new bowl," Elisha said, "and put salt into it." When they had brought it to him,
21 he went out to the spring and threw salt into it, saying, "Thus says the LORD, 'I have purified this water. Never again shall death or miscarriage spring from it.'"
22 And the water has stayed pure even to this day, just as Elisha prophesied.
23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. While he was on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him. "Go up, baldhead," they shouted, "go up, baldhead!"
24 The prophet turned and saw them, and he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the children to pieces.
25 From there he went to Mount Carmel, and thence he returned to Samaria.
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2 Kings 2 reports Elijah's rise to heaven in a whirlwind of fire and the prophetic succession of Elisha. Elijah is taken by a fire car and Elisha inherits Elijah's cloak as his prophetic successor. Here are five verses related to the topics covered in 2 Kings 2:
Exodus 13:21: "And the LORD went before them, day in a cloud column to guide them along the way, and at night in a column of fire to illuminate them, to walk day and night." This verse resembles God's manifestation in a column of cloud and fire, similar to the whirlwind of fire that led Elijah, suggesting divine presence and protection.
2 Kings 1:10: "Elijah answered, saying to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, fire from heaven, and devour him to you and your fifty. Then he fell fire to heaven and devoured him to Him and his own fifty." This verse highlights the power of Elijah as God's prophet, who is able to invoke fire from heaven to protect his divine authority.
2 Kings 4:14: "Then he said, What shall we do for her? Replied Gehazi, In fact she has no son, and her husband is old." This verse introduces the story of a woman who hosts Elisha and her connection to the theme of prophetic succession, as she is rewarded with a child for hosting the prophet and later seeks Elisha's help when her son gets sick.
2 Kings 13:14: "And Elisha was sick of the disease that he died; and came to him Joas, king of Israel, and cried upon his face, saying, My father, my father! The car of Israel, and his knights, and his knights ! This verse records Elisha's death and its importance as a prophet to Israel, calling him "Israel's car" and highlighting his role as a significant figure for King Joas.
1 Kings 19:19: "And from there, he found Elisha the son of a naughty, who poured twelve oxen together, and he was with the twelfth; and Elijah passed him and threw his cloak upon him." This verse tells how Elijah found Elisha and chose it as his prophetic successor, preparing the terrain for the prophetic succession that occurs in 2 Kings 2.
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