2 Kings 2:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

Take up

Gilgal

Joshua 4:19

Joshua 5:9

General references

Job 38:1

Bible References

Take up

Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

while he went a day's journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: "I've had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I'm no better than my ancestors."

Now when the days drew near for him to be taken up, Jesus set out resolutely to go to Jerusalem.

After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.

Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them: "Come up here!" So the two prophets went up to heaven in a cloud while their enemies stared at them.

Gilgal

The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

The Lord said to Joshua, "Today I have taken away the disgrace of Egypt from you." So that place is called Gilgal even to this day.

General references

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: