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saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed
themselves to the ground before him.
16
And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them
go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the L
ORD
hath taken him up,
and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
17
And
when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they
sought three days, but found him not.
18
And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,)
he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
19
And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city
is
pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water
is
naught, and the ground barren.
20
And he said, Bring
me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they bring
it
to him.
21
And he went forth unto the spring
of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the L
ORD
, I have healed these waters;
there shall not be from thence any more death or barren
land.
22
So the waters were healed unto
this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
23
And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came
forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go
up, thou bald head.
24
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of
the L
ORD
. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of
them.
25
And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.
CHAPTER KINGS 3
Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
2
And he wrought evil in the sight of the
L
ORD
; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father
had made.
3
Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel
to sin; he departed not therefrom.
4
And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred
thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
5
But it came to pass, when Ahab
was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
6
And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.
7
And he went
and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt
thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I
am
as thou
art,
my people as
thy people,
and
my horses as thy horses.
8
And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered,
The way through the wilderness of Edom.
9
So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and
the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days’ journey: and there was no water for
the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
10
And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the L
ORD
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