2 Kings 2:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Elisha kept watching and crying out, “Father, father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” But when he could no longer see him, he grasped his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And Elisha saw it and he cried, My father, my father! The chariot of Israel and its horsemen! And he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof! And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

Common English Bible

¹² Elisha was watching, and he cried out, “Oh, my father, my father! Israel’s chariots and its riders!” When he could no longer see him, Elisha took hold of his clothes and ripped them in two.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Then Elisha saw it, and he cried out: "My father, my father! The chariot of Israel with its driver!" And he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own garments, and he tore them into two parts.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And Eliseus saw him, and cried: My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the driver thereof. And he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own garments, and rent them in two pieces.

2 Kings 2:12 Cross References

Genesis 37:34

Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 5:24

Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him.

2 Kings 13:14

Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, King Joash of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

2 Kings 2:13

He picked up the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

2 Kings 5:13

But his servants approached and said to him, “Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”

2 Kings 6:21

When the king of Israel saw them he said to Elisha, “Father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

Job 22:30

He will deliver even those who are guilty; they will escape because of the cleanness of your hands.”

Proverbs 11:11

By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 30:4

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of the hand? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is the person’s name? And what is the name of the person’s child? Surely you know!

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom gives strength to the wise more than ten rulers who are in a city.

Isaiah 37:15

And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying:

Isaiah 37:21

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria,

Isaiah 37:4

It may be that the Lord your God heard the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.” [[

Mark 16:19

So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

Luke 2:15

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.”

Luke 24:51

While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.

John 3:13

No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

Acts 1:9

When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

Acts 27:24

and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before the emperor, and, indeed, God has granted safety to all those who are sailing with you.’

Acts 8:2

Devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.

2 Corinthians 5:2

For in this tent we groan, longing to be further clothed with our heavenly dwelling,

2 Corinthians 5:4

For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burden because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Ephesians 4:8

Therefore it is said, “When he ascended on high, he made captivity itself a captive; he gave gifts to his people.”

Revelation 11:12

Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud while their enemies watched them.

Judges 17:10

Then Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a set of clothes, and your living.”