Elijah left there and found Elisha son of Shaphat as he was ploughing. Twelve teams of oxen were in front of him, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah walked by him and threw his mantle over him.
2 Kings 2:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised picked up the mantle that had fallen off Elijah, and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan. American Standard Version (1901) He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan. Common English Bible Then Elisha picked up the coat that had fallen from Elijah. He went back and stood beside the banks of the Jordan River. Catholic Public Domain Version And he picked up the cloak of Elijah, which had fallen from him. And turning back, he stood above the bank of the Jordan. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he took up the mantle of Elias, that fell from him: and going back, he stood upon the bank of the Jordan, |
Elijah left there and found Elisha son of Shaphat as he was ploughing. Twelve teams of oxen were in front of him, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah walked by him and threw his mantle over him.
King Solomon put together a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom.
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,
He took the mantle Elijah had dropped, and he struck the water. ‘Where is the Lord God of Elijah? ’ he asked. He struck the water himself, and it parted to the right and the left, and Elisha crossed over.
Elijah took his mantle, rolled it up, and struck the water, which parted to the right and left. Then the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
They were stoned, , they were sawn in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.
Then Saul asked her, ‘What does he look like? ’ ‘An old man is coming up,’ she replied. ‘He’s wearing a robe.’ Then Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he knelt low with his face to the ground and paid homage.