2 Kings 2:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.

Cross References

Genesis 5:24

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

Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was taken so that he did not experience death, and “he was not found, because God had taken him.” For it was attested before he was taken away that “he had pleased God.”

1 Kings 19:11

He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake,

Joshua 5:9

The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.” And so that place is called Gilgal to this day.

Joshua 4:19

The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.

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.

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.

Luke 9:51

When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.

Job 38:1

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:

2 Kings 4:38

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the company of prophets was sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Put the large pot on, and make some stew for the company of prophets.”

2 Kings 2:11

As they continued walking and talking, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them, and Elijah ascended in a whirlwind into heaven.

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

1 Kings 18:12

As soon as I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will carry you I know not where; so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have revered the Lord from my youth.

2 Kings 1:18

Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?