When they came back to him (he had remained at Jericho), he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?”
But when they urged him to the point of embarrassment, he said, “Send them.” So they sent fifty men who searched for three days but did not find him.
Now the people of the city said to Elisha, “The location of this city is good, as my lord sees, but the water is bad, and the land is unfruitful.”
He entered Jericho and was passing through it.