Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, for GOD has sent me on to Bethel.” “As GOD lives and as you live,” said Elisha, “I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
Disciples of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that GOD will take your master away from youaaway from you Lit. “from upon your head.” today?” He replied, “I know it, too; be silent.”
Then Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for GOD has sent me on to Jericho.” “As GOD lives and as you live,” said Elisha, “I will not leave you.” So they went on to Jericho.
The disciples of the prophets who were at Jericho came over to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that GOD will take your master away from youbaway from you See note at v. 3. today?” He replied, “I know it, too; be silent.”
Elijah said to him, “Stay here, for GOD has sent me on to the Jordan.” “As GOD lives and as you live, I will not leave you,” he said, and the two of them went on.
Thereupon Elijah took his mantle and, rolling it up, he struck the water; it divided to the right and left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry land.
As they were crossing, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” Elisha answered, “Let a double portioncdouble portion Lit. “two-thirds”; cf. Zech. 13.8. of your spirit pass on to me.”
As they kept on walking and talking, a fiery chariot with fiery horses suddenly appeared and separated one from the other; and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.
Elisha saw it, and he cried out, “Oh, father, father! Israel’s chariots and riders!” When he could no longer see him, he grasped his garments and rent them in two.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואלישע
417
ראה
206
והוא
18
מצעק
300
אבי
13
אבי
13
רכב
222
ישראל
541
ופרשיו
602
ולא
37
ראהו
212
עוד
80
ויחזק
131
בבגדיו
27
ויקרעם
426
לשנים
430
קרעים
420
II Kings 2:13
Gematria: 3733
וירםאתאדרתאליהואשרנפלהמעליווישבויעמדעלשפתהירדן
He picked up Elijah’s mantle, which had dropped from him; and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.
Taking the mantle that had dropped from Elijah, he struck the water and said, “Where is the ETERNAL, the God of Elijah?” As he too struck the water, it parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.
When the disciples of the prophets at Jericho saw him from a distance, they exclaimed, “The spirit of Elijah has settled on Elisha!” And they went to meet him and bowed low before him to the ground.
They said to him, “Your servants have fifty able men with them. Let them go and look for your master; perhaps the spirit of GOD has carried him off and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.” “Do not send them,” he replied.
The leadersdleaders Or “inhabitants.” of the town said to Elisha, “Look, the town is a pleasant place to live in, as my lord can see; but the water is bad and the land causes bereavement.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמרו
263
אנשי
361
העיר
285
אלאלישע
442
הנהנא
111
מושב
348
העיר
285
טוב
17
כאשר
521
אדני
65
ראה
206
והמים
101
רעים
320
והארץ
302
משכלת
790
II Kings 2:20
Gematria: 2223
ויאמרקחוליצלחיתחדשהושימושםמלחויקחואליו
He responded, “Bring me a new dish and put salt in it.” They brought it to him;
From there he went up to Bethel. As he was going up the road, some little boys came out of the town and jeered at him, saying, “Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!”
He turned around and looked at them and cursed them in the name of GOD. Thereupon, two she-bears came out of the woods and mangled forty-two of the children.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויפן
146
אחריו
225
ויראם
257
ויקללם
216
בשם
342
יהוה
26
ותצאנה
552
שתים
750
דבים
56
מןהיער
375
ותבקענה
633
מהם
85
ארבעים
323
ושני
366
ילדים
94
II Kings 2:25
Gematria: 2341
וילךמשםאלהרהכרמלומשםשבשמרוןפ
He went on from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.