and they turn back unto him — and he is abiding in Jericho — and he saith unto them, ‘Did I not say unto you, Do not go?’
And they press upon him, till he is ashamed, and he saith, ‘Send ye;’ and they send fifty men, and they seek three days, and have not found him;
And the men of the city say unto Elisha, ‘Lo, we pray thee, the site of the city [is] good, as my lord seeth, and the waters [are] bad, and the earth sterile.’
And having entered, he was passing through Jericho,