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- 2 Kings 2:2
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and Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Bethel.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
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- 2 Kings 2:3
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Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”
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- 2 Kings 2:4
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And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Jericho.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
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- 2 Kings 2:5
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Then the sons of the prophets at Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”
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- 2 Kings 2:6
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And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to the Jordan.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.
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- 2 Kings 2:9
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After they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken away from you?” “Please, let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.
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- 2 Kings 2:10
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“You have requested a difficult thing,” said Elijah. “Nevertheless, if you see me as I am taken from you, it will be yours. But if not, then it will not be so.”
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- 2 Kings 2:14
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Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. And when he had struck the waters, they parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.
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- 2 Kings 2:15
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When the sons of the prophets who were watching him from Jericho saw what had happened, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.
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- 2 Kings 2:16
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“Look now,” they said to Elisha, “we your servants have fifty valiant men. Please let them go and search for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and put him on one of the mountains or in one of the valleys.” “Do not send them,” Elisha replied.
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- 2 Kings 2:17
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But when they pressed him to the point of embarrassment, he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find Elijah.
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- 2 Kings 2:18
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When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”
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- 2 Kings 2:19
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Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please note, our lord, that the city’s location is good, as you can see. But the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”
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- 2 Kings 2:20
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“Bring me a new bowl,” he replied, “and put some salt in it.” So they brought it to him,
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- 2 Kings 2:21
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and Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness.’”
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- 2 Kings 2:23
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From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
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- 2 Kings 3:7
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And he sent a message to Jehoshaphat king of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to fight against Moab?” “I will go,” replied Jehoshaphat. “I am as you are, my people are your people, and my horses are your horses.”
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- 2 Kings 3:8
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Then he asked, “Which way shall we go up?” “By way of the Desert of Edom,” replied Joram.
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- 2 Kings 3:10
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“Alas,” said the king of Israel, “for the LORD has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab!”
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- 2 Kings 3:11
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But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here? Let us inquire of the LORD through him.” And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shaphat is here. He used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.”
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- 2 Kings 3:12
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Jehoshaphat affirmed, “The word of the LORD is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
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- 2 Kings 3:13
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Elisha, however, said to the king of Israel, “What have we to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and of your mother!” “No,” replied the king of Israel, “for it is the LORD who has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
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- 2 Kings 3:14
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Then Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not for my regard for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not look at you or acknowledge you.
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- 2 Kings 3:16
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and he said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Dig this valley full of ditches.’
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- 2 Kings 3:17
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For the LORD says, ‘You will not see wind or rain, but the valley will be filled with water, and you will drink—you and your cattle and your animals.’
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- 2 Kings 3:23
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“This is blood!” they exclaimed. “The kings have clashed swords and slaughtered one another. Now to the plunder, Moab!”
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- 2 Kings 4:1
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Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
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- 2 Kings 4:2
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“How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
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- 2 Kings 4:3
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“Go,” said Elisha, “borrow empty jars from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.
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- 2 Kings 4:6
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When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another.” But he replied, “There are no more jars.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
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- 2 Kings 4:7
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She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”
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- 2 Kings 4:9
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Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
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- 2 Kings 4:12
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And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call the Shunammite woman.” And when he had called her, she stood before him,
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- 2 Kings 4:13
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and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
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- 2 Kings 4:14
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So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”
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- 2 Kings 4:15
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“Call her,” said Elisha. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.
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- 2 Kings 4:16
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And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”
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- 2 Kings 4:19
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“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
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- 2 Kings 4:22
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And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”
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- 2 Kings 4:23
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“Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.
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- 2 Kings 4:24
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Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”
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- 2 Kings 4:25
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So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman.
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- 2 Kings 4:26
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Please run out now to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’” And she answered, “Everything is all right.”
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- 2 Kings 4:27
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When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
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- 2 Kings 4:28
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Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”
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- 2 Kings 4:29
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So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
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- 2 Kings 4:30
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And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.
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- 2 Kings 4:31
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Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
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- 2 Kings 4:36
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Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”
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- 2 Kings 4:38
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When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
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