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2 Kings 2:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Fifty men from the sons of the prophets came and stood observing them at a distance while the two of them stood by the Jordan.

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However, they urged him to the point of embarrassment,  so he said, ‘Send them.’ They sent fifty men, who looked for three days but did not find him.


Wasn’t it reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the Lord’s prophets? I hid a hundred of the prophets of the Lord, fifty men to a cave, and I provided them with food and water.


and took a hundred prophets and hid them, fifty men to a cave, and provided them with food and water when Jezebel  slaughtered the Lord’s prophets.


When the sons of the prophets from Jericho who were observing saw him, they said, ‘The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.’ They came to meet him and bowed down to the ground in front of him.


Then the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, ‘Since there are fifty strong men here with your servants, please let them go and search for your master. Maybe the Spirit of the Lord has carried him away and put him on one of the mountains or into one of the valleys.’ He answered, ‘Don’t send them.’


‘After that you will come to Gibeah of God  where there are Philistine garrisons.  When you arrive at the city, you will meet a group of prophets  coming down from the high place prophesying.  They will be preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres.


One of the sons of the prophets  said to his fellow prophet by the word of the Lord, ‘Strike me! ’ But the man refused to strike him.


One of the wives of the sons of the prophets  cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord.  Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.’


Gehazi said, ‘It’s all right.  My master has sent me to say, “I have just now discovered that two young men from the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them thirty-five kilograms  of silver and two sets of clothing.” ’


The sons of the prophets  said to Elisha, ‘Please notice that the place where we live under your supervision  is too small for us.


The prophet Elisha called one of the sons of the prophets  and said, ‘Tuck your mantle  under your belt, take this flask of oil  with you, and go to Ramoth-gilead.


So Amos answered Amaziah, ‘I was  not a prophet or the son of a prophet;  , rather, I was  a herdsman,  and I took care of sycamore figs.





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