2 Kings 2 (NET)

2 Kings 2:1¹Just before the Lord took Elijah up to heaven in a windstorm, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 5:24Heb 11:51 Kgs 19:16-211 Kgs 19:11Josh 4:19Josh 5:91 Kgs 18:121 Kgs 19:42 Kgs 2:112 Kgs 4:38

2 Kings 2:2²Elijah told Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 2:62 Kgs 4:30Ruth 1:15-181 Sam 1:262 Kgs 2:42 Sam 15:19-21John 6:67-681 Kgs 12:33-13:21 Sam 25:26Gen 28:19

2 Kings 2:3³Some members of the prophetic guild in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 4:12 Kgs 4:381 Kgs 20:352 Kgs 9:11 Kgs 18:41 Sam 10:10-121 Sam 19:202 Kgs 2:152 Kgs 2:52 Kgs 2:7

2 Kings 2:4⁴Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 2:2Josh 6:261 Kgs 16:342 Kgs 4:30Luke 19:1Acts 11:23Acts 2:42

2 Kings 2:5⁵Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 2:3Acts 1:11Acts 1:2Eccl 3:7Gen 48:19Hab 2:20Isa 41:1John 17:5-7Josh 1:1-2Luke 24:51

2 Kings 2:6⁶Elijah said to him, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they traveled on together.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 2:2Josh 3:15

2 Kings 2:7⁷The fifty members of the prophetic guild went and stood opposite them at a distance, while Elijah and Elisha stood by the Jordan.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 18:131 Kgs 18:42 Kgs 2:17

2 Kings 2:8⁸Elijah took his cloak, folded it up, and hit the water with it. The water divided, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 19:19Exod 14:21-22Josh 3:14-172 Kgs 2:141 Kgs 19:13Heb 11:29Isa 11:15Ps 114:5-7Rev 16:12

2 Kings 2:9⁹When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “What can I do for you, before I am taken away from you?” Elisha answered, “May I receive a double portion of the prophetic spirit that energizes you?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 11:17Deut 21:17John 16:7Acts 20:25-36Acts 1:8Acts 8:17Num 11:25Zech 12:81 Cor 12:311 Kgs 3:9

2 Kings 2:10¹⁰Elijah replied, “That’s a difficult request! If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don’t, it will not happen.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 2:12John 16:24Mark 11:22-24Acts 1:9-10

2 Kings 2:11¹¹As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot pulled by fiery horses appeared. They went between Elijah and Elisha, and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 6:17Ps 104:3-4Heb 1:14Ps 68:17Ezek 1:4-28Ezek 10:9-22Hab 3:8Mark 16:19Zech 3:8Gen 5:24

2 Kings 2:12¹²While Elisha was watching, he was crying out, “My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!” Then he could no longer see him. He grabbed his clothes and tore them in two.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 13:142 Cor 5:22 Cor 5:4Acts 1:9Acts 8:2Eph 4:8Isa 37:15Isa 37:21Isa 57:1-2Job 1:20-21

2 Kings 2:13¹³He picked up Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him, and went back and stood on the shore of the Jordan.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 19:192 Kgs 2:8

2 Kings 2:14¹⁴He took the cloak that had fallen off Elijah, hit the water with it, and said, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” When he hit the water, it divided and Elisha crossed over.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:12Ps 42:10Ps 115:2Acts 3:12-13Josh 1:1-92 Kgs 2:8-10Acts 2:33Joel 2:17Judg 6:13Mark 16:20

2 Kings 2:15¹⁵When the members of the prophetic guild in Jericho, who were standing at a distance, saw him do this, they said, “The spirit that energized Elijah rests upon Elisha.” They went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 4:14Acts 1:82 Cor 12:92 Kgs 2:192 Kgs 2:72 Kgs 4:1-42 Kgs 4:372 Kgs 6:1-7Isa 11:2Isa 59:21

2 Kings 2:16¹⁶They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha replied, “Don’t send them out.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 18:12Acts 8:392 Cor 12:2-3Ezek 11:24Ezek 3:14Ezek 40:2Ezek 8:3

2 Kings 2:17¹⁷But they were so insistent that he became embarrassed. So he said, “Send them out.” They sent the fifty men out, and they looked for three days, but could not find Elijah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 8:112 Sam 18:22-23Heb 11:5Luke 11:8Rom 10:2

2 Kings 2:18¹⁸When they came back, Elisha was staying in Jericho. He said to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go’?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

2 Kings 2:19¹⁹The men of the city said to Elisha, “Look, the city has a good location, as our master can see. But the water is bad and the land doesn’t produce crops.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:2-4Exod 23:26Deut 28:11Deut 28:15-181 Kgs 16:34Exod 15:23Exod 7:19Num 12:111 Kgs 18:7Hos 9:14

2 Kings 2:20²⁰Elisha said, “Get me a new jar and put some salt in it.” So they got it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 9:45Zeph 2:9Ezek 47:11

2 Kings 2:21²¹He went out to the spring and threw the salt in. Then he said, “This is what the Lord has said, ‘I have purified this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 15:25-262 Kgs 4:41Lev 2:132 Kgs 6:6Rev 21:4Rev 22:2-3John 9:6Mark 9:501 Cor 1:18-28Matt 5:11

2 Kings 2:22²²The water has been pure to this very day, just as Elisha prophesied.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

2 Kings 2:23²³He went up from there to Bethel. As he was traveling up the road, some young boys came out of the city and made fun of him, saying, “Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 36:16Job 19:18Job 30:1Gen 21:9Prov 22:6Ps 31:181 Kgs 12:28-32Amos 3:14Amos 4:4Amos 5:5

2 Kings 2:24²⁴When he turned around and saw them, he called God’s judgment down on them. Two female bears came out of the woods and ripped forty-two of the boys to pieces.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:9-11Acts 5:5Acts 5:9Amos 7:17Hos 13:81 Kgs 13:241 Kgs 19:171 Kgs 20:362 Kgs 1:10-122 Sam 17:8

2 Kings 2:25²⁵From there he traveled to Mount Carmel and then back to Samaria.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 4:251 Kgs 18:19-201 Kgs 18:42