Elisha Assumes the Prophetic Mantle

2 Kings 2:13-18

Then he picked up Eliyahu's cloak, which had fallen off him. Standing on the bank of the Yarden,

he took the cloak that had fallen off Eliyahu, struck the water and said, "Where is ADONAI, the God of Eliyahu?" But when he actually did strike the water, it divided itself to the left and to the right; then Elisha crossed over.

When the guild prophets of Yericho saw him in the distance, they said, "The spirit of Eliyahu does rest on Elisha." Advancing to meet him, they prostrated themselves on the ground before him

and said to him, "Here now, your servants include fifty strong men. Please let them go and look for your master, in the event that the Spirit of ADONAI has taken him up and set him down on some mountain or in some valley." He answered, "Don't send them."

But they kept pressing him until finally, embarrassed, he said to send them. So they sent fifty men. For three days they searched, but they didn't find him.

On returning to him where he was waiting in Yericho, he said to them, "I told you not to go, didn't I?"

Elisha Assumes the Prophetic Mantle

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