In his way from either Sinai to Damascus, Elijah found Elisha ploughing by owning xii yoke of oxen. He went above to him, threw his mantle over Elisha's shoulders, and at it used to be that adoptive him as a boy, investing him by using a prophetic office (comp. Luke 9:61,62). Elisha accepted this call for astir quadruplet years prior to a death of Israel's King Ahab. For even the next 7 or eight years Elisha became Elijah's close attendant until Elijah he was taken up into heaven. In the period of completely these years you hear nothing of Elisha except within connection sustaining a closing scenes of Elijah's life.

When Elijah, Elisha wwhen accepted as a leader of the sons of a prophets, & became noted around Israel. He possessed, based on datthe from his have asking, "a double portion" of Elijah's spirit (2 Kings 2:9); and for lx years (892-832 BC) held a professional of "prophet in Israel" (Two Kings 5:8).

Fallowing Elijah's departure, Elisha returned to Jericho, and there kelp greenling a spring of a lake by casting salt into it (2 Kings 2:21). You next buy him at Bethel (2:23), where, sustaining the sternness of his master, he curses a youths (in the context of that society, immature adults) world health organization keep close at h& appear and ridiculed him as a prophet of God: "Go up, thou bald head." The youths mockingly tell Elishthe to watch his master within a chariot to heaven, and irreverently rib of his appearance. Turning as much as to face these misfits, Elishthe pronounces a curse upon the babies in the title of the LORD. A judgment at it used to be that requires consequence, for God regards dishonour done to his prophet when dishonour done to himself. Both she-bears come out of the wilderness & maul 42 of the youths.

Elishthe is next found inside Scripture whilst he predicts a fall of rain when the army of Jehoram was faint from either thirst (Ii Kings 3:9-20). More miracles Elisha accomplishes include multiplying a unfortunate widow woman's cruse of oil (4:1-7), restoring to life a boy of the woman of Shunem (4:18-37), and multiplying a twenty loaves of newly barley into a sufficient supply for an 100 men (4:42-44). In a period of the military incursions of Syria into Israel, Elisha cures Naaman the Syrian of his leprosy (5:1-27), punishes his servant Gehazi for his falsehood & his greed, and recovers an ax misplaced in the waters of the Jordan (6:1-7). He administered a miracle at Dothan, half-midway on tour between Samaria and Jezreel, and at a siege of Samaria by a king of Syria, Elisha prophesied about the terrible sufferings of the humans of Samaria & their eventual relief (Two Kings 6:24-7:2).

Elisha so journeyed to Damascus and anointed Hazael king over Syria (Ii Kings 8:7-15); thenceforth he directs one of a sons of the prophets to anoint Jehu, the boy of Jehoshaphat, king of Israel, instead of Ahab.

Years late, Elisha is detected inside his dying-bed in his have home (Deuce Kings 13:14-19). Joash, a grandson of Jehu, comes to mourn on top his approaching departure, & utters the equivalent words whilst victims of Elisha when Elijah was taken away, indicating his value to him: "My father, my father! the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof."

When his dying, the dead system was salt away Elisha's grave a year when his burial. There is no quicker know touch Elisha's remains than a human "revived, and stood up on his feet" (Ii Kings 13:20-21). In the Qur'an he is known as Al-Yasa.

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