Discovery Box| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 4:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">Now a wife of one of the prophets<n id="1" /> appealed<n id="2" /> to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" /> Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.” |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 5:7 |
| When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill or restore life? Why does he ask me to cure a man of his skin disease?<n id="1" /> Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!”<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 5:8 |
| <p class="bodytext">When Elisha the prophet<n id="1" /> heard that the king had torn his clothes, he sent this message to the king, “Why did you tear your clothes? Send him<n id="2" /> to me so he may know there is a prophet in Israel.” |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 5:15 |
| <p class="bodytext">He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman<n id="1" /> came and stood before him. He said, “For sure<n id="2" /> I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.” |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 5:20 |
| Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought,<n id="1" /> “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him.<n id="2" /> As certainly as the <sc>Lordsc> lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.” |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 5:26 |
| Elisha<n id="1" /> replied, “I was there in spirit when a man turned and got down from his chariot to meet you.<n id="2" /> This is not the proper time to accept silver or to accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, cattle, and male and female servants.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 6:15 |
| <p class="bodytext">The prophet’s<n id="1" /> attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha,<n id="2" /> “Oh no, my master! What will we do?” |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 6:19 |
| Then Elisha said to them, “This is not the right road or city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you’re looking for.” He led them to Samaria.<n id="1" />p> |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 7:2 |
| An officer who was the king’s right-hand man<n id="1" /> responded to the prophet,<n id="2" /> “Look, even if the <sc>Lordsc> made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?”<n id="3" /> Elisha<n id="4" /> said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”<n id="5" />p> |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 7:6 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!” |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 7:9 |
| Then they said to one another, “It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone.<n id="1" /> If we wait until dawn,<n id="2" /> we’ll be punished.<n id="3" /> So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.” |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 7:10 |
| So they went and called out to the gatekeepers<n id="1" /> of the city. They told them, “We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn’t even hear a man’s voice.<n id="2" /> But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up.”<n id="3" /> |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 7:17 |
| <p class="bodytext">Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man<n id="1" /> at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate.<n id="2" /> This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 7:19 |
| But the officer replied to the prophet, “Look, even if the <sc>Lordsc> made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?”<n id="1" /> Elisha<n id="2" /> said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”<n id="3" /> |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 8:8 |
| So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift<n id="1" /> and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the <sc>Lordsc>. Ask him,<n id="2" /> ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’” |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 9:11 |
| <p class="bodytext">When Jehu rejoined<n id="1" /> his master’s servants, they<n id="2" /> asked him, “Is everything all right?<n id="3" /> Why did this madman visit you?” He replied, “Ah, it’s not important. You know what kind of man he is and the kinds of things he says.”<n id="4" /> |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 9:21 |
| Jehoram ordered, “Hitch up my chariot.”<n id="1" /> When his chariot had been hitched up,<n id="2" /> King Jehoram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah went out in their respective chariots<n id="3" /> to meet Jehu. They met up with him<n id="4" /> in the plot of land that had once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel.p> |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 10:5 |
| So the palace supervisor,<n id="1" /> the city commissioner,<n id="2" /> the leaders,<n id="3" /> and the guardians sent this message to Jehu, “We are your subjects!<n id="4" /> Whatever you say, we will do. We will not make anyone king. Do what you consider proper.”<n id="5" />p> |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 10:21 |
| Jehu sent invitations throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one was absent. They arrived at the temple of Baal and filled it up from end to end.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.91730751623377) | 2Ki 10:25 |
| <p class="bodytext">When he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Jehu ordered the royal guard<n id="1" /> and officers, “Come in and strike them down! Don’t let any escape!” So the royal guard and officers struck them down with the sword and left their bodies lying there.<n id="2" /> Then they entered the inner sanctuary of the temple of Baal.<n id="3" /> |
