1Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.stylus2 Kings 2:3, 2 Kings 2:3, Isaiah 54:2, Isaiah 54:3, 1 Samuel 19:202Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there.” “Go,” said Elisha.stylus1 Corinthians 9:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 1 Thessalonians 2:9, John 21:3, Acts 18:33Then one of them said, “Please come with your servants.” “I will come,” he replied.stylusJudges 19:6, 2 Kings 5:23, Judges 4:8, Job 6:28, Judges 19:64So Elisha went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down some trees.stylusDeuteronomy 29:11, Deuteronomy 19:5, Deuteronomy 29:11, Deuteronomy 19:55As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”stylusEcclesiastes 10:10, 2 Kings 6:15, Psalms 37:21, Revelation 18:10, Ecclesiastes 10:106“Where did it fall?” asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.stylus2 Kings 2:21, 2 Kings 2:21, Mark 8:23, Mark 8:25, Mark 8:237“Lift it out,” he said, and the man reached out his hand and took it.stylus2 Kings 4:36, 2 Kings 4:36, 2 Kings 4:7, 2 Kings 4:7, Exodus 4:48Now the king of Aram was at war against Israel. After consulting with his servants, he said, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”stylus1 Kings 22:31, Proverbs 21:30, Proverbs 20:18, 2 Kings 6:24, Isaiah 7:59Then the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Be careful passing by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.”stylusAmos 3:7, Amos 3:7, Revelation 1:1, 2 Kings 6:12, 2 Kings 4:2710So the king of Israel sent word to the place the man of God had pointed out. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.stylusHebrews 11:7, Amos 7:1, Amos 7:6, 2 Kings 13:14, Proverbs 27:1211For this reason the king of Aram became enraged and called his servants to demand of them, “Tell me, which one of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”stylus1 Samuel 22:8, Matthew 2:3, Matthew 2:12, Psalms 48:4, Psalms 48:512But one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”stylusAmos 3:7, Daniel 2:28, Daniel 2:30, Amos 3:7, Daniel 2:2813So the king said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send men to capture him.” On receiving the report, “Elisha is in Dothan,”stylusGenesis 37:17, Genesis 37:17, John 11:47, John 11:53, John 11:4714the king of Aram sent horses, chariots, and a great army. They went there by night and surrounded the city.stylusJohn 18:3, John 18:6, Matthew 26:55, Matthew 26:47, 1 Samuel 23:2615When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early in the morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”stylusMatthew 8:26, Matthew 8:26, 2 Chronicles 20:12, 2 Chronicles 20:12, Psalms 53:516“Do not be afraid,” Elisha answered, “for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”stylusIsaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:14, Romans 8:3117Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.stylusPsalms 68:17, Psalms 68:17, Psalms 34:7, Psalms 34:7, Zechariah 6:118As the Arameans came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike these people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.stylusActs 13:11, Acts 13:11, John 12:40, John 12:40, Genesis 19:1119And Elisha told them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will take you to the man you are seeking.” And he led them to Samaria.stylusMatthew 16:24, 2 Samuel 16:18, 2 Samuel 16:19, Mark 8:34, Luke 24:1620When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men that they may see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes, and they looked around and discovered that they were in Samaria.stylus2 Kings 6:17, 2 Kings 6:17, Judges 20:40, Judges 20:42, Luke 24:3121And when the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”stylus2 Kings 5:13, 2 Kings 5:13, 2 Kings 8:9, 2 Kings 8:9, 2 Kings 2:1222“Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”stylusGenesis 48:22, Romans 12:20, Romans 12:21, Genesis 48:22, Romans 12:2023So the king prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. And the Aramean raiders did not come into the land of Israel again.stylus2 Kings 5:2, 2 Kings 5:2, 2 Kings 24:2, 2 Kings 24:2, Luke 10:2924Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.stylus1 Kings 20:1, 1 Kings 20:1, 2 Kings 17:5, Ecclesiastes 9:14, 1 Kings 22:3125So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.stylusJeremiah 14:13, Jeremiah 14:15, 2 Kings 6:28, 2 Kings 6:29, Jeremiah 14:1826As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”stylus2 Samuel 14:4, 2 Samuel 14:4, Isaiah 10:3, Acts 21:28, Luke 18:327He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”stylusPsalms 118:8, Psalms 118:9, Psalms 118:8, Psalms 118:9, Psalms 62:828Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’stylus2 Samuel 14:5, 2 Samuel 14:5, Lamentations 4:10, Judges 18:23, Lamentations 4:1029So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”stylusDeuteronomy 28:53, Leviticus 26:29, Deuteronomy 28:53, Leviticus 26:29, Deuteronomy 28:5730When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And as he passed by on the wall, the people saw the sackcloth under his clothes next to his skin.stylus1 Kings 21:27, 1 Kings 21:27, 2 Kings 19:1, Isaiah 58:5, Isaiah 58:731He announced, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders through this day!”stylusRuth 1:17, 1 Kings 19:2, Ruth 1:17, 1 Kings 19:2, John 11:5032Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”stylusEzekiel 8:1, Ezekiel 14:1, 1 Kings 18:4, Ezekiel 20:1, Ezekiel 8:133While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”stylusJob 2:9, Job 2:9, Isaiah 8:21, Isaiah 8:21, Psalms 27:14
