He replied, “Yes, go and say to your master, ‘Elijah is back.’”

Elisha said to him, “Go in peace.” When he had gone a short distance,

This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.

Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.

Jehoshaphat’s kingdom enjoyed peace; his God made him secure on every side.

Jehoiada chose two wives for him who gave him sons and daughters.

“Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!

For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.

If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

Does not the ear test words, as the tongue tastes food?

Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. the full force of misery will come upon him.

Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,

Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

“If I go to the east, he is not there, and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.

God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;

Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!

For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.