The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us. 2Ki 2:3Isa 54:2-31Ki 20:351Sa 19:202Ki 4:1Isa 49:19-20Jos 17:14Jos 19:47 Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.” 1Co 9:61Th 2:91Ti 6:62Th 3:8Act 18:3Act 20:34-35Jhn 21:3
He answered, “Go!”
One said, “Please be pleased to go with your servants.” 2Ki 5:23Jdg 19:6Jdg 4:8Job 6:28
He answered, “I will go.” So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood. Deu 19:5Deu 29:11 But as one was cutting down a tree, the ax head fell into the water. Then he cried out and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.” 2Ki 3:102Ki 6:15Ecc 10:10Psa 37:21Rev 18:102Ki 4:7Rev 18:16Rev 18:19
The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float. 2Ki 2:212Ki 4:41Exo 15:25Mrk 8:23-25Jhn 9:6-7Mrk 7:33-34 He said, “Take it.” So he put out his hand and took it. 2Ki 4:362Ki 4:7Exo 4:4Act 9:41Luk 7:15
Now the king of Syria was at war against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.” 2Ki 6:24Pro 20:18Pro 21:301Ki 22:31Isa 7:5-7Isa 8:10Job 5:12-131Ki 20:1
The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Beware that you not pass this place, for the Syrians are coming down there.” Amo 3:71Ki 20:131Ki 20:282Ki 3:17-192Ki 4:272Ki 6:12Rev 1:1 The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice. 1Ki 20:152Ch 20:202Ki 13:142Ki 2:122Ki 5:14Act 27:24Amo 7:1-6Exo 9:20-21 The king of Syria’s heart was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, “Won’t you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?” 1Sa 22:81Sa 28:21Isa 57:20-21Job 18:7-11Mat 2:3-12Psa 48:4-5
One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.” Amo 3:7Dan 2:28-302Ki 6:9-10Dan 2:22-23Ecc 10:202Ki 5:13-152Ki 5:3Dan 2:47
He said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him.” Gen 37:17Jhn 11:47-531Sa 23:22-23Act 23:12-27Jer 36:26Mat 2:4-8Psa 10:8-10Psa 37:12-14
He was told, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”
Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night and surrounded the city. 1Sa 23:261Sa 24:22Ki 18:17Jhn 18:3-6Mat 26:47Mat 26:552Ki 1:9-13 When the servant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?” Mat 8:262Ch 20:12Exo 24:13Psa 53:51Ki 19:212Ki 3:112Ki 5:202Ki 5:27
He answered, “Don’t be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” Rom 8:31Isa 41:10-141Jn 4:42Ch 32:7-8Act 18:9-10Exo 14:13Psa 55:18Isa 8:10 Elisha prayed, and said, “LORD, please open his eyes, that he may see.” the LORD opened the young man’s eyes, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha. Psa 68:17Psa 34:7Zec 6:1-7Act 26:18Heb 1:142Ki 2:11Isa 42:7Mat 26:53 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” Act 13:11Jhn 12:40Gen 19:11Jhn 9:39Deu 28:28Job 5:14Rom 11:7Zec 12:4
He struck them with blindness according to Elisha’s word.
Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” He led them to Samaria. 2Sa 16:18-19Luk 24:16Luk 9:23Mat 16:24Mrk 8:34 When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “LORD, open these men’s eyes, that they may see.” 2Ki 6:17Jdg 20:40-42Luk 16:23Luk 24:31
The LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the middle of Samaria.
The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?” 2Ki 5:132Ki 8:92Ki 2:121Sa 24:191Sa 24:41Sa 26:82Ki 13:14Luk 22:49
He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, then go to their master.” Gen 48:22Rom 12:20-212Ch 28:8-15Deu 20:11-16Hos 2:18Hos 1:7Jos 24:12Mat 5:44
He prepared a great feast for them. After they ate and drank, he sent them away and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel. 2Ki 5:22Ki 24:22Ki 6:8-9Luk 10:29-37Luk 6:352Ch 28:15Mat 5:47Pro 25:21-22
After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. 1Ki 20:11Ki 22:312Ki 17:5Deu 28:52Ecc 9:142Ki 18:92Ki 25:1 There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab 1 of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver. 2Ki 6:28-29Jer 14:13-15Jer 14:18Jer 52:6Jer 32:241Ki 18:22Ki 25:32Ki 7:4 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!” 2Sa 14:4Act 21:28Isa 10:3Luk 18:3
He said, “If the LORD doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?” Psa 118:8-9Psa 124:1-3Jer 17:5Psa 127:1Psa 146:3Psa 60:11Psa 62:8Isa 2:2 Then the king asked her, “What is your problem?” 2Sa 14:5Jdg 18:23Lam 4:10Lev 26:29Luk 23:291Sa 1:8Deu 28:53-57Ezk 5:10
She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.” Deu 28:53Lev 26:291Ki 3:26Deu 28:57Isa 49:15Isa 66:13
When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body. 1Ki 21:272Ki 19:12Ki 5:7Isa 58:5-7 Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.” Rut 1:171Ki 19:21Ki 18:171Ki 2:231Ki 22:81Sa 14:441Sa 25:221Sa 3:17
But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?” 1Ki 18:4Ezk 14:1Ezk 20:1Ezk 8:11Ki 18:13-141Ki 21:101Ki 14:61Ki 21:13
While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?” Job 2:9Isa 8:211Sa 28:6-81Sa 31:42Co 2:112Co 2:7Exo 16:6-8Gen 4:13