2 Kings 2

1When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.Cross-references: Gen 5:24 · Josh 4:19 · Josh 5:9 · 1Ki 18:12 · 1Ki 19:4 · 1Ki 19:11 · +8 more

2Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.” Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.Cross-references: Gen 28:19 · Ruth 1:15 · 1Sam 1:26 · 1Sam 17:55 · 1Sam 25:26 · 2Sam 15:19 · +8 more

3The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from over you today?” He said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”Cross-references: Deut 33:3 · 1Sam 10:10 · 1Sam 19:20 · 1Ki 18:4 · 1Ki 20:35 · 2Ki 2:5 · +8 more

4Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.Cross-references: Josh 6:26 · 1Ki 16:34 · 2Ki 2:2 · 2Ki 4:30 · Luke 19:1 · Acts 2:42 · +1 more

5The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from over you today?” He answered, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”Cross-references: Gen 48:19 · Josh 1:1 · 2Ki 2:3 · Eccl 3:7 · Isa 41:1 · Hab 2:20 · +5 more

6Elijah said to him, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” Then they both went on.Cross-references: Josh 3:15 · 2Ki 2:2

7Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite them at a distance; and they both stood by the Jordan.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:4 · 1Ki 18:13 · 2Ki 2:17

8Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters; and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground.Cross-references: Ex 14:21 · Josh 3:14 · 1Ki 19:13 · 1Ki 19:19 · 2Ki 2:14 · Ps 114:5 · +3 more

9When they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.”Cross-references: Num 11:17 · Num 11:25 · Num 27:16 · Deut 21:17 · Deut 34:9 · 1Ki 3:9 · +16 more

10He said, “You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it will be so for you; but if not, it will not be so.”Cross-references: 2Ki 2:12 · Mark 11:22 · John 16:24 · Acts 1:9

11As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.Cross-references: Gen 5:24 · 2Ki 2:1 · 2Ki 6:17 · Ps 68:17 · Ps 104:3 · Ezek 1:4 · +6 more

12Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.Cross-references: 2Ki 13:14 · Job 1:20 · Job 22:30 · Prov 11:11 · Prov 30:4 · Eccl 7:19 · +16 more

13He also took up Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan.Cross-references: 1Ki 9:26 · 1Ki 19:19 · 2Ki 2:8

14He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over.Cross-references: Josh 1:1 · Judg 6:13 · 1Ki 18:36 · 2Ki 2:8 · Ps 42:2 · Ps 42:10 · +6 more

15When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho facing him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.Cross-references: Num 11:25 · Num 27:20 · Josh 3:7 · Josh 4:14 · 2Ki 2:7 · 2Ki 2:19 · +9 more

16They said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps Yahweh’s Spirit has taken him up, and put him on some mountain or into some valley.” He said, “Don’t send them.”Cross-references: 1Ki 18:12 · Ezek 3:14 · Ezek 8:3 · Ezek 11:24 · Ezek 40:2 · Acts 8:39 · +1 more

17When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, “Send them.” Therefore they sent fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn’t find him.Cross-references: 2Sam 18:22 · 2Ki 8:11 · Luke 11:8 · Rom 10:2 · Heb 11:5

18They came back to him while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go’?”

19The men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren.”Cross-references: Ex 7:19 · Ex 15:23 · Ex 23:26 · Num 12:11 · Deut 28:2 · Deut 28:11 · +8 more

20He said, “Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it.” Then they brought it to him.Cross-references: Judg 9:45 · Ezek 47:11 · Zeph 2:9

21He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or barren wasteland.’”Cross-references: Ex 15:25 · Lev 2:13 · 2Ki 4:41 · 2Ki 6:6 · Ps 107:33 · Ezek 47:8 · +6 more

22So the waters were healed to this day, according to Elisha’s word which he spoke.

23He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”Cross-references: Gen 21:9 · 1Ki 12:28 · 2Ki 2:11 · 2Chr 36:16 · Job 19:18 · Job 30:1 · +22 more

24He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of those youths.Cross-references: Gen 9:25 · Ex 20:5 · Deut 28:15 · Judg 9:20 · Judg 9:57 · 2Sam 17:8 · +19 more

25He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:19 · 1Ki 18:42 · 2Ki 4:25