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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Kings 2 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_kings/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > 2 Kings 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/1.htm" title="2 Kings 1">◄</a> 2 Kings 2 <a href="../2_kings/3.htm" title="2 Kings 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Elijah Is Taken Up to Heaven</h3><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.1" class="v12_2_1">1</span>The time came for the <span class="nd">Lord</span> to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elijah and Elisha set out from Gilgal, </span><span class="v12_2_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.2" class="v12_2_2">2</span>and on the way Elijah said to Elisha, “Now stay here; the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has ordered me to go to Bethel.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_2">But Elisha answered, “I swear by my loyalty to the living <span class="nd">Lord</span> and to you that I will not leave you.” So they went on to Bethel.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.3" class="v12_2_3">3</span>A group of prophets who lived there went to Elisha and asked him, “Do you know that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is going to take your master away from you today?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_3">“Yes, I know,” Elisha answered. “But let's not talk about it.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.4" class="v12_2_4">4</span>Then Elijah said to Elisha, “Now stay here; the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has ordered me to go to Jericho.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_4">But Elisha answered, “I swear by my loyalty to the living <span class="nd">Lord</span> and to you that I will not leave you.” So they went on to Jericho.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.5" class="v12_2_5">5</span>A group of prophets who lived there went to Elisha and asked him, “Do you know that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is going to take your master away from you today?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_5">“Yes, I know,” Elisha answered. “But let's not talk about it.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.6" class="v12_2_6">6</span>Then Elijah said to Elisha, “Now stay here; the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has ordered me to go to the Jordan River.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_6">But Elisha answered, “I swear by my loyalty to the living <span class="nd">Lord</span> and to you that I will not leave you.” So they went on, </span><span class="v12_2_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.7" class="v12_2_7">7</span>and fifty of the prophets followed them to the Jordan. Elijah and Elisha stopped by the river, and the fifty prophets stood a short distance away. </span><span class="v12_2_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.8" class="v12_2_8">8</span>Then Elijah took off his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the water with it; the water divided, and he and Elisha crossed to the other side on dry ground. </span><span class="v12_2_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.9" class="v12_2_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.2.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> There, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me what you want me to do for you before I am taken away.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_9">“Let me receive the share of your power that will make me your successor,”<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.2.9!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Elisha answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.10" class="v12_2_10">10</span>“That is a difficult request to grant,” Elijah replied. “But you will receive it if you see me as I am being taken away from you; if you don't see me, you won't receive it.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.11" class="v12_2_11">11</span>They kept talking as they walked on; then suddenly a chariot of fire pulled by horses of fire came between them, and Elijah was taken up to heaven by a whirlwind. </span><span class="v12_2_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.12" class="v12_2_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.2.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Elisha saw it and cried out to Elijah, “My father, my father! Mighty defender of Israel! You are gone!” And he never saw Elijah again.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_12">In grief Elisha tore his cloak in two. </span><span class="v12_2_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.13" class="v12_2_13">13</span>Then he picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen from him, and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. </span><span class="v12_2_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.14" class="v12_2_14">14</span>He struck the water with Elijah's cloak and said, “Where is the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the God of Elijah?” Then he struck the water again, and it divided, and he walked over to the other side. </span><span class="v12_2_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.15" class="v12_2_15">15</span>The fifty prophets from Jericho saw him and said, “The power of Elijah is on Elisha!” They went to meet him, bowed down before him, </span><span class="v12_2_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.16" class="v12_2_16">16</span>and said, “There are fifty of us here, all strong men. Let us go and look for your master. Maybe the spirit of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has carried him away and left him on some mountain or in some valley.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_16">“No, you must not go,” Elisha answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.17" class="v12_2_17">17</span>But they insisted until he gave in and let them go. The fifty of them went and looked high and low for Elijah for three days, but didn't find him. </span><span class="v12_2_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.18" class="v12_2_18">18</span>Then they returned to Elisha, who had waited at Jericho, and he said to them, “Didn't I tell you not to go?”</span></p><h3 class="s">Miracles of Elisha</h3><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.19" class="v12_2_19">19</span>Some men from Jericho went to Elisha and said, “As you know, sir, this is a fine city, but the water is bad and causes miscarriages.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.20" class="v12_2_20">20</span>“Put some salt in a new bowl and bring it to me,” he ordered. They brought it to him, </span><span class="v12_2_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.21" class="v12_2_21">21</span>and he went to the spring, threw the salt in the water, and said, “This is what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> says: ‘I make this water pure, and it will not cause any more deaths or miscarriages.’” </span><span class="v12_2_22"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.22" class="v12_2_22">22</span>And that water has been pure ever since, just as Elisha said it would be.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_23"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.23" class="v12_2_23">23</span>Elisha left Jericho to go to Bethel, and on the way some boys came out of a town and made fun of him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they shouted.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_24"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.24" class="v12_2_24">24</span>Elisha turned around, glared at them, and cursed them in the name of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys to pieces.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_2_25"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.2.25" class="v12_2_25">25</span>Elisha went on to Mount Carmel and later returned to Samaria.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.9: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">the share … successor: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Elisha asked for the share that the first-born son inherited by law from his father (see Dt 21.17).</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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