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- 2 Kings 4:40
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And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.
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- 2 Kings 4:41
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Then Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
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- 2 Kings 4:42
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Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
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- 2 Kings 4:43
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But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”
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- 2 Kings 5:3
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She said to her mistress, “If only my master would go to the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his leprosy.”
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- 2 Kings 5:4
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And Naaman went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said.
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- 2 Kings 5:5
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“Go now,” said the king of Aram, “and I will send you with a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman departed, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of clothing.
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- 2 Kings 5:6
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And the letter that he took to the king of Israel stated: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”
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- 2 Kings 5:7
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When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
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- 2 Kings 5:8
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Now when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king: “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let the man come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
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- 2 Kings 5:10
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Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”
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- 2 Kings 5:11
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But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out, stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the spot to cure my leprosy.
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- 2 Kings 5:13
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Naaman’s servants, however, approached him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’?”
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- 2 Kings 5:15
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Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, “Now I know for sure that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”
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- 2 Kings 5:16
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But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will not accept it.” And although Naaman urged him to accept it, he refused.
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- 2 Kings 5:17
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“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.
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- 2 Kings 5:19
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“Go in peace,” said Elisha. But after Naaman had traveled a short distance,
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- 2 Kings 5:20
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Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, by not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
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- 2 Kings 5:21
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So Gehazi pursued Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right?”
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- 2 Kings 5:22
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“Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘Look, two young men from the sons of the prophets have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.’”
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- 2 Kings 5:23
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But Naaman insisted, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged Gehazi to accept them. Then he tied up two talents of silver in two bags along with two sets of clothing and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them ahead of Gehazi.
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- 2 Kings 5:25
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When Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi, where have you been?” “Your servant did not go anywhere,” he replied.
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- 2 Kings 5:26
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But Elisha questioned him, “Did not my spirit go with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to accept money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?
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- 2 Kings 6:1
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Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.
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- 2 Kings 6:2
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Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there.” “Go,” said Elisha.
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- 2 Kings 6:3
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Then one of them said, “Please come with your servants.” “I will come,” he replied.
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- 2 Kings 6:5
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As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”
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- 2 Kings 6:6
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“Where did it fall?” asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.
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- 2 Kings 6:7
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“Lift it out,” he said, and the man reached out his hand and took it.
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- 2 Kings 6:8
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Now the king of Aram was at war against Israel. After consulting with his servants, he said, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”
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- 2 Kings 6:9
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Then the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Be careful not to pass by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.”
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- 2 Kings 6:10
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So the king of Israel sent word to the place the man of God had pointed out. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.
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- 2 Kings 6:11
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For this reason the king of Aram became enraged and called his servants to demand of them, “Tell me, which one of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”
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- 2 Kings 6:12
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But one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”
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- 2 Kings 6:13
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So the king said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send men to capture him.” On receiving the report, “Elisha is in Dothan,”
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- 2 Kings 6:15
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When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early in the morning, behold, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”
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- 2 Kings 6:16
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“Do not be afraid,” Elisha answered, “for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
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- 2 Kings 6:17
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Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
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- 2 Kings 6:18
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As the Arameans came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike these people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.
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- 2 Kings 6:19
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And Elisha told them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will take you to the man you are seeking.” And he led them to Samaria.
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- 2 Kings 6:20
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When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men that they may see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes, and they looked around and discovered that they were in Samaria.
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- 2 Kings 6:21
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And when the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”
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- 2 Kings 6:22
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“Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”
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- 2 Kings 6:26
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As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
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- 2 Kings 6:27
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He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”
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- 2 Kings 6:28
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Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’
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- 2 Kings 6:29
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So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”
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- 2 Kings 6:31
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He announced, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders through this day!”
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- 2 Kings 6:32
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Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
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- 2 Kings 6:33
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While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
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