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2 Kings chapter 2

When was about to take up to the sky in a , Elijah and were leaving .Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here — Yahweh has sent me to .” But Elisha said, “, and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.The at Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh is going to take your master away from you today?” He said, “Yes, I know. .”Then Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here — Yahweh has sent me to .” But he said, “As Yahweh lives, and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.The prophets’ apprentices at Jericho came up to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh is going to take your master away from you today?” He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here — Yahweh has sent me to .” But he said, “As Yahweh lives, and as you live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them walked on. from the prophets’ apprentices went and stood watching from a distance, while the two of them stood by the Jordan.Elijah took his , rolled it up, and struck the water. The water to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on .When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask me for something before I’m taken from you.” Elisha said, “Let me inherit a of your .”He said, “You’ve asked for something . If you see me being taken from you, it will be yours. But if you don’t see it, it won’t.”As they kept walking and talking, suddenly a and appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah in a windstorm.Elisha watched and cried out, “ !” Then he couldn’t see him anymore. He grabbed his own clothes and .He picked up Elijah’s from him, and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.He took Elijah’s cloak that had fallen from him and struck the water, saying, “” When he struck the water, it split to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.When the prophets’ apprentices from Jericho saw him from across the water, they said, “The spirit of Elijah Elisha.” They came to meet him and before him.They said to him, “Look, have fifty strong men. Let them go search for your master — maybe the picked him up and dropped him on some mountain or in some valley.” He said, “Don’t send them.”But they kept pressing him until he was , so he said, “Send them.” They sent fifty men and searched for but didn’t find him.They came back to him while he was staying in Jericho. He said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”The men of the city said to Elisha, “Look, this city is in a good location, as my master can see, but the water is and the land is .”He said, “Bring me a , and put in it.” So they brought it to him.He went out to the spring where the water came from and threw the salt into it, saying, “: ‘I have this water. It will no longer cause death or miscarriages.’”The water has been , just as Elisha said it would be.From there he went up to Bethel. As he was walking up the road, some came out of the city and mocked him, saying, “, ! Go on up, baldy!”He turned around, looked at them, and on them . Then two came out of the woods and forty-two of them.From there he went to , and from there he returned to .