1Shortly before the LORD took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal,stylusGenesis 5:24, Genesis 5:24, Hebrews 11:5, Hebrews 11:5, 1 Kings 19:162and Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Bethel.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.stylus2 Kings 2:6, 2 Kings 2:6, 2 Kings 4:30, Ruth 1:15, Ruth 1:183Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”stylus2 Kings 4:1, 2 Kings 4:38, 2 Kings 4:1, 2 Kings 4:38, 2 Kings 9:14And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Jericho.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.stylus2 Kings 2:2, 2 Kings 2:2, Joshua 6:26, Joshua 6:26, 1 Kings 16:345Then the sons of the prophets at Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”stylus2 Kings 2:3, 2 Kings 2:3, Genesis 48:19, Acts 1:11, Joshua 1:16And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to the Jordan.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.stylus2 Kings 2:2, 2 Kings 2:2, Joshua 3:15, Joshua 3:157Then a company of fifty of the sons of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing Elijah and Elisha as the two of them stood by the Jordan.stylus2 Kings 2:17, 1 Kings 18:13, 1 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 2:17, 1 Kings 18:138And Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and to the left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.stylusExodus 14:21, Exodus 14:22, 1 Kings 19:19, Exodus 14:21, Exodus 14:229After they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken away from you?” “Please, let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.stylusNumbers 11:17, Numbers 11:17, Deuteronomy 21:17, Deuteronomy 21:17, John 16:710“You have requested a difficult thing,” said Elijah. “Nevertheless, if you see me as I am taken from you, it will be yours. But if not, then it will not be so.”stylus2 Kings 2:12, John 16:24, Mark 11:22, Mark 11:24, 2 Kings 2:1211As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.stylusPsalms 104:3, Psalms 104:4, 2 Kings 6:17, Psalms 104:3, Psalms 104:412As Elisha watched, he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And he saw Elijah no more. So taking hold of his own clothes, he tore them in two.stylus2 Kings 13:14, 2 Kings 13:14, Job 1:20, Job 1:21, Mark 16:1913Elisha also picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah, and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.stylus1 Kings 19:19, 1 Kings 9:26, 1 Kings 19:19, 1 Kings 9:26, 2 Kings 2:814Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. And when he had struck the waters, they parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.stylusJohn 14:12, John 14:12, Psalms 42:10, Psalms 42:10, Joshua 1:115When the sons of the prophets who were facing him from Jericho saw what had happened, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.stylus1 Peter 4:14, Acts 1:8, 1 Peter 4:14, Acts 1:8, 2 Corinthians 12:916“Look now,” they said to Elisha, “we your servants have fifty valiant men. Please let them go and search for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and put him on one of the mountains or in one of the valleys.” “Do not send them,” Elisha replied.stylus1 Kings 18:12, 1 Kings 18:12, Acts 8:39, Acts 8:39, Ezekiel 3:1417But when they pressed him to the point of embarrassment, he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find Elijah.stylus2 Kings 8:11, 2 Kings 8:11, Hebrews 11:5, 2 Samuel 18:22, 2 Samuel 18:2318When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”stylus19Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please note, our lord, that the city’s location is good, as you can see. But the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”stylusDeuteronomy 28:2, Deuteronomy 28:4, Deuteronomy 28:2, Deuteronomy 28:4, Exodus 23:2620“Bring me a new bowl,” he replied, “and put some salt in it.” So they brought it to him,stylusZephaniah 2:9, Judges 9:45, Zephaniah 2:9, Judges 9:45, Ezekiel 47:1121and Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness.’”stylusExodus 15:25, Exodus 15:26, Exodus 15:25, Exodus 15:26, 2 Kings 4:4122And the waters there have been healthy to this day, according to the word spoken by Elisha.stylus23From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”stylus2 Chronicles 36:16, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Job 19:18, Job 30:1, Job 19:1824Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.stylusActs 13:9, Acts 13:11, Acts 13:9, Acts 13:11, Acts 5:525And Elisha went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.stylus2 Kings 4:25, 2 Kings 4:25, 1 Kings 18:19, 1 Kings 18:20, 1 Kings 18:19