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

And Enoch walketh habitually with God, and he is not, for God hath taken him.

and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, 'Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I am not better than my fathers.'

And it came to pass, in the completing of the days of his being taken up, that he fixed his face to go on to Jerusalem,

And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;

By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,

and they heard a great voice out of the heaven saying to them, 'Come up hither;' and they went up to the heaven in the cloud, and their enemies beheld them;

Gilgal

And the people have come up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and encamp in Gilgal, in the extremity east of Jericho;

and Jehovah saith unto Joshua, 'To-day I have rolled the reproach of Egypt from off you;' and one calleth the name of that place Gilgal unto this day.

General references

And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --