Then Elisha said, ‘Take the arrows! ’ So he took them. Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, ‘Strike the ground! ’ So he struck the ground three times and stopped.
2 Kings 13:19 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The man of God was angry with him and said, ‘You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to them, but now you will strike down Aram only three times.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the man of God was angry with him and said, You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had destroyed it. But now you shall strike Syria down only three times. American Standard Version (1901) And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times: then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it; whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice. Common English Bible The man of God became angry with him. He said, “If only you had struck five or six times, you would have finished the Arameans off. As it is, you will defeat them only three times.” Catholic Public Domain Version the man of God became angry against him. And he said: "If you had struck five or six or seven times, you would have struck down Syria, even until it was consumed. But now you will strike it three times." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the man of God was angry with him, and said: If thou hadst smitten five or six or seven times, thou hadst smitten Syria even to utter destruction. But now three times shalt thou smite it. |
Then Elisha said, ‘Take the arrows! ’ So he took them. Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, ‘Strike the ground! ’ So he struck the ground three times and stopped.
Then Jehoash son of Jehoahaz took back from Ben-hadad son of Hazael the cities that Hazael had taken in war from Jehoash’s father Jehoahaz. Jehoash defeated Ben-hadad three times and recovered the cities of Israel.
Elisha said, ‘At this time next year you will have a son in your arms.’ Then she said, ‘No, my lord. Man of God, do not lie to your servant.’
They served some for the men to eat, but when they ate the stew they cried out, ‘There’s death in the pot, man of God! ’ And they were unable to eat it.
Gehazi, the attendant of Elisha the man of God, thought, ‘My master has let this Aramean Naaman off lightly by not accepting from him what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.’
But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: ‘Be careful passing by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.’
The one who does the Lord’s business deceitfully is cursed, and the one who withholds his sword from bloodshed is cursed.
Then Moses enquired carefully about the male goat of the sin offering, but it had already been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s surviving sons, and asked,
Then Moses became angry and said to the Lord, ‘Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.’
When Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me. Don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
After looking round at them with anger, he was grieved at the hardness of their hearts and told the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
He was not able to do a miracle there, except that he laid his hands on a few ill people and healed them.