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Ahaziah died according to the word the LORD spoke through Elijah. Because he had no son, Jehoram became king in his place. The account closes by pointing to the records of Ahaziah’s acts (2 Kings 1:17–18).
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A man brought Elisha twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain. Elisha ordered it given to the people, even though his servant questioned how it could feed a hundred men. They ate and had some left, “according to the word of the LORD” (2 Kings 4:42–44).
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The men of Jericho said the water was bad and the land miscarried. Elisha asked for a new bowl and salt, threw the salt into the spring, and declared the LORD had healed the water. The text says the water remained healed “to this day” according to Elisha’s word (2 Kings 2:19–22).
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A widow said a creditor was coming to take her two children as slaves. Elisha told her to borrow empty vessels, shut the door, and pour her oil into them; the oil kept flowing until there were no more vessels. She sold the oil, paid her debt, and lived on the rest with her sons (2 Kings 4:1–7).
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As the sons of the prophets were cutting logs by the Jordan, an iron axe head fell into the water, and the man cried out that it was borrowed. Elisha cut a stick, threw it in, and the iron floated. He told the man to take it up, and he reached out his hand and took it (2 Kings 6:5–7).
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After the child died, the woman went to Elisha, and he came to the house. Elisha went in, shut the door, prayed, and lay on the child, placing mouth, eyes, and hands on him. The child’s body became warm, he sneezed seven times, and opened his eyes (2 Kings 4:32–35).
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The messengers described the man who met them as "a hairy man" with "a leather belt" around his waist. Ahaziah immediately identified him as Elijah the Tishbite based on that description (2 Kings 1:7–8).
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As Elijah and Elisha were walking and talking, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated them. Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven while Elisha watched and cried out. Elisha then tore his clothes in grief (2 Kings 2:11–12).
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Elisha said to make the valley full of ditches. He promised they would see neither wind nor rain, yet the valley would be filled with water for the people and animals. The water came in the morning, by the way of Edom, and the land was filled with water (2 Kings 3:16–20).
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When the king of Moab was hard-pressed, he took his firstborn son who was to reign after him and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. The text says great wrath came against Israel, and they withdrew and returned to their own land (2 Kings 3:26–27).
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The third captain came and fell on his knees before Elijah. He pleaded for his life and for the lives of his fifty men after seeing what happened to the first two groups. Then an angel told Elijah to go with him, and Elijah went to the king (2 Kings 1:13–15).
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As Elisha went up to Bethel, some youths came out and mocked him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead!” Elisha turned back, cursed them in the name of the LORD, and two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of them. Then Elisha went on to Mount Carmel and returned to Samaria (2 Kings 2:23–25).
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During a famine, someone gathered wild gourds and put them into the stew, and the men cried out that there was death in the pot. Elisha told them to bring flour, threw it into the pot, and said to serve the people. The text reports there was no harm in the pot afterward (2 Kings 4:38–41).
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Gehazi ran after Naaman and claimed Elisha had just received two young men from the hill country and needed a talent of silver and two changes of clothing. After taking and hiding the gifts, he lied to Elisha about where he had been. Elisha declared that Naaman’s leprosy would cling to Gehazi and his descendants, and Gehazi went out leprous, “as white as snow” (2 Kings 5:22–27).
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Elisha picked up Elijah’s cloak and struck the water of the Jordan. He said, “Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” and the water parted to one side and to the other so he crossed over. The sons of the prophets saw and said the spirit of Elijah rested on Elisha (2 Kings 2:13–15).
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Ahaziah was injured after falling through a lattice and sent to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron. Elijah intercepted the messengers and asked if it was because there was no God in Israel that they were going to inquire elsewhere. He announced that Ahaziah would not recover and would die (2 Kings 1:2–4).
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Elijah told Elisha to ask what he wanted before Elijah was taken away. Elisha requested a “double portion” of Elijah’s spirit, and Elijah said it was a hard thing but gave a sign: if Elisha saw him taken, it would be granted. Elisha did see it as Elijah was taken up (2 Kings 2:9–12).
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After Naaman was healed, he returned and urged Elisha to accept a present. Elisha refused, swearing, “As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.” Naaman then made requests about taking earth and about pardon in his duties, and Elisha told him to go in peace (2 Kings 5:15–19).
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Ahaziah sent a captain with fifty men to seize Elijah, ordering him to come down. Elijah replied that if he was a man of God, fire should come down and consume them, and it happened. The same pattern repeated with a second captain and fifty (2 Kings 1:9–12).
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Jehoram of Israel joined with Jehoshaphat of Judah and the king of Edom to march against Moab by the wilderness route of Edom. After a seven-day journey, there was no water for the army or the animals. The crisis led them to seek a prophet of the LORD, and Elisha was consulted (2 Kings 3:8–12).
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When the sun shone on the water, the Moabites saw it from a distance as red like blood. They concluded the kings had fought each other and that there was plunder to take. So they went to Israel’s camp, where Israel rose and struck them (2 Kings 3:22–24).
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She recognized Elisha as a holy man of God and urged her husband to make a small upper room for him with basic furnishings. Elisha asked what could be done for her, and he promised that about that time next year she would embrace a son. The promise was fulfilled as she conceived and bore a son at the stated time (2 Kings 4:8–17).
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They thought the Spirit of the LORD might have carried Elijah and thrown him onto a mountain or into a valley. Elisha told them not to send, but they urged him until he allowed it. They searched three days and did not find him (2 Kings 2:16–18).
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Naaman expected Elisha to come out, call on the LORD, and perform a dramatic healing, but Elisha sent a messenger telling him to wash seven times in the Jordan. Naaman became angry and compared the Jordan unfavorably to the rivers of Damascus. After his servants persuaded him, he dipped seven times, and his flesh was restored (2 Kings 5:10–14).