2 Kings 2:16-18

Elisha Succeeds Elijah

16 And they said to him, "Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. It may be that z the Spirit of the Lord has caught him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley." And he said, "You shall not send." 17 But when they urged him a till he was ashamed, he said, "Send." They sent therefore fifty men. And for three days they sought him but did not find him. 18 And they came back to him while he was staying at Jericho, and he said to them, "Did I not say to you, 'Do not go'?"

  1. Cross References
    1 Kings 18:12
    And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the Lord will carry you I know not where. And so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the Lord from my youth.
  2. Cross References
    2 Kings 8:11
    And he fixed his gaze and stared at him, until he was embarrassed. And the man of God wept.
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