Thematic Bible
2 Kings 2:1 (show verse)
When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up in the storm [to] heaven, Elijah and Elisha went from Gilgal.
2 Kings 2:2 (show verse)
Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for Yahweh has sent me up to Bethel." Elisha said, "{As Yahweh lives} and {as your soul lives}, I will certainly not leave you!" So they went down [to] Bethel.
2 Kings 2:3 (show verse)
Then the sons of the prophets who [were in] Bethel came out to Elisha, and they said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh [is] going to take your master {from you} today?" He said, "I also know; be quiet!"
2 Kings 2:4 (show verse)
Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please stay here because Yahweh has sent me to Jericho." And he said, "{As Yahweh lives} and {as your soul lives}, I will certainly not leave you!" So they came to Jericho.
2 Kings 2:5 (show verse)
Then the sons of the prophets who [were] in Jericho came near to Elisha, and they said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh [is] going to take your master {from you} today?" He said, "I also know; be quiet!"
2 Kings 2:6 (show verse)
Then Elijah said to him, "Please stay here, because Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan." He said, "{As Yahweh lives} and {as your soul lives}, I will certainly not leave you!" So the two of them went on.
2 Kings 2:7 (show verse)
Then fifty men from the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite [them] at a distance while the two of them stood by the Jordan.
2 Kings 2:8 (show verse)
Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the water. It divided {in two}, and the two of them crossed over on dry land.
2 Kings 2:9 (show verse)
After they crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I may do for you before I am taken away from you." Then Elisha said, "Please let there come to me a double portion of your spirit."
2 Kings 2:10 (show verse)
He said, "What you ask is difficult. If you see me being taken from you, it will be so for you, but if not, it will not happen."
2 Kings 2:11 (show verse)
Then they [were] walking, talking as they went. Suddenly a fiery chariot with horses of fire [appeared] and separated between the two of them. Elijah went up in the storm [to] the heavens
2 Kings 2:12 (show verse)
while Elisha [was] watching and crying out, "My father, my father; the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!" But he could not see him any longer, and he grasped his clothes and tore them in two pieces.
2 Kings 2:13 (show verse)
Then he picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen off of him, and he returned and stood on the bank of the Jordan.
2 Kings 2:14 (show verse)
He took Elijah's cloak that had fallen from upon him and struck the water. Then he said, "Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?" So he also struck the water, and it divided {in two}, and Elisha crossed over.
2 Kings 2:15 (show verse)
When the sons of the prophets who [were] at Jericho saw him from [the] other side, they declared, "The spirit of Elijah rests upon Elisha," and they came to meet him and bowed down to him to the ground.
2 Kings 2:16 (show verse)
Then they said to him, "Look, there are with your servants fifty able men. Please let them go and look for your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has lifted him up and thrown him on one of the mountains or into one of the valleys," but he said, "You must not send them."
2 Kings 2:17 (show verse)
But they urged him until embarrassing [him], so he said, "Send them." So they sent fifty men, and they looked for three days, but they could not find him.
2 Kings 2:18 (show verse)
Then they returned to him while he [was] staying in Jericho. He said to them, "Did I not tell you not to go?"
2 Kings 2:19 (show verse)
The men of the city said to Elisha, "Please now, the location of the city [is] good, as my master can see, but the water [is] bad and the land unproductive."
2 Kings 2:20 (show verse)
So he said, "Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it." So they brought it to him.
2 Kings 2:21 (show verse)
Then he went out to the spring of waters and threw the salt [into it] there and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'I hereby purify these waters; let there be no longer any death or unproductiveness from it.'"
2 Kings 2:22 (show verse)
Then the waters were purified until this very day according to the word of Elisha that he spoke.
2 Kings 2:23 (show verse)
Then he went up from there [to] Bethel; as he [was] going up along the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked at him and said to him, "Go up, baldhead; go up, baldhead!"
2 Kings 2:24 (show verse)
When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two bears came out of the forest and mauled forty-two boys among them.
2 Kings 2:25 (show verse)
Then he went from there to Mount Carmel and from there he returned [to] Samaria.