I said, “Sovereign Lord, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!”

But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased

But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

You have witnessed what the Lord did at Baal Peor, how he eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor.

Just like the nations the Lord is about to destroy from your sight, so he will do to you because you would not obey him.

But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

The Lord will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.

Just then a prophet from Judah, sent by the Lord, arrived in Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing near the altar ready to offer a sacrifice.

The altar split open and the ashes fell from the altar to the ground, in fulfillment of the sign the prophet had announced with the Lord’s authority.

Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him the road the prophet from Judah had taken.

The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a prophet and that the Lord really does speak through you.”

The king sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’”

He said, “About this time next year you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”

She called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”

But the prophet sent this message to the king of Israel, “Make sure you don’t pass through this place because Syria is invading there.”

So the woman did as the prophet said. She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.”

Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king was told, “The prophet has come here.”

They transported the ark on a new cart from the house of Abinadab; Uzzah and Ahio were guiding the cart,

and the men of Judah gave the battle cry. As the men of Judah gave the battle cry, the Lord struck down Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.