<t /><p class="bodytext">Just before<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> took Elijah up to heaven in a windstorm, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.

Elisha<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Get me a new jar and put some salt in it.&#8221; So they got it.

<p class="bodytext">The king<n id="1" /> sent a captain and his fifty soldiers<n id="2" /> to retrieve Elijah.<n id="3" /> The captain<n id="4" /> went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill.<n id="5" /> He told him, &#8220;Prophet,<n id="6" /> the king says, &#8216;Come down!&#8217;&#8221;

He went inside and had a meal.<n id="1" /> Then he said, &#8220;Dispose of this accursed woman&#8217;s corpse. Bury her, for after all, she was a king&#8217;s daughter.&#8221;<n id="2" />

&#8220;This is what Hezekiah says:<n id="1" /> &#8216;This is a day of distress, insults,<n id="2" /> and humiliation,<n id="3" /> as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">One day Elisha<n id="1" /> came for a visit; he went<n id="2" /> into the upper room and rested.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">For a remnant will leave Jerusalem;p> <p class="poetry">survivors will come out of Mount Zion.p> <p class="poetry">The intense devotion of the sovereign <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> to his people<n id="2" /> will accomplish this.p>

He said to his father, &#8220;My head! My head!&#8221; His father<n id="1" /> told a servant, &#8220;Carry him to his mother.&#8221;

The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.p>

So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army.<n id="1" /> They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.p>

<p class="bodytext">While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him, &#8220;Help us, my master, O king!&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, &#8220;Ahab worshiped<n id="1" /> Baal a little; Jehu will worship<n id="2" /> him with great devotion.<n id="3" />

Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, &#8220;Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.&#8221; Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

She said to her husband, &#8220;Look, I&#8217;m sure<n id="1" /> that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet.<n id="2" />

Isaiah ordered, &#8220;Get a fig cake.&#8221; So they did as he ordered<n id="1" /> and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there.<n id="1" /> King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design.<n id="2" />

As one of them was felling a log, the ax head<n id="1" /> dropped into the water. He shouted, &#8220;Oh no,<n id="2" /> my master! It was borrowed!&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Jehoiada then drew up a covenant between the <sc>Lordsc> and the king and people, stipulating that they should be loyal to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" />

He said, &#8220;About this time next year<n id="1" /> you will be holding a son.&#8221; She said, &#8220;No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!&#8221;

Elisha sent out a messenger who told him, &#8220;Go and wash seven times in the Jordan; your skin will be restored<n id="1" /> and you will be healed.&#8221;