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2 Chronicles 21:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then a letter came to Jehoram from the prophet Elijah, saying: This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David says: ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat  or in the ways of King Asa of Judah

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The time had come for the Lord to take Elijah up to heaven  in a whirlwind.  Elijah and Elisha  were travelling from Gilgal,


At that moment the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the king’s palace wall next to the lampstand. As the king watched the hand  that was writing,


As soon as Jehudi would read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut the scroll  with a scribe’s knife and throw the columns into the fire in the hearth until the entire scroll was consumed by the fire in the hearth.


‘Take a scroll,  and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations from the time I first spoke to you during Josiah’s reign until today.


As they continued walking and talking, a chariot of fire with horses of fire  suddenly appeared and separated the two of them. Then Elijah went up into heaven in the whirlwind.


He walked in all the ways of his father Asa;  he did not turn away from them but did what was right in the Lord’s sight. However, the high places were not taken away;  the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.


Asa did what was right in the Lord’s sight, as his ancestor David had done.


Now Elijah  the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers,  , said to Ahab, ‘As the Lord God of Israel lives,  in whose presence I stand, there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command! ’


Abijah rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place.  During his reign the land experienced peace for ten years.





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