When Elisha became sick with the illness from which he died, King Jehoash of Israel went down and wept over him and said, ‘My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel! ’
As Elisha watched, he kept crying out, ‘My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel! ’ When he could see him no longer, he took hold of his own clothes, tore them in two,