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2 Kings · read by Robert Constable
50 verses, in order. Only the verses Robert read aloud are shown.
2 Kings 2
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And Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and to the left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-02 Elisha
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After they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, "Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken away from you?" "Please, let me inherit a double portion of your spirit," Elisha replied.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-02 Elisha
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"You have requested a difficult thing," said Elijah. "Nevertheless, if you see me as I am taken from you, it will be yours. But if not, then it will not be so."Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-02 Elisha
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As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-02 Elisha
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As Elisha watched, he cried out, "My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!" And he saw Elijah no more. So taking hold of his own clothes, he tore them in two.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-02 Elisha
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Elisha also picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah, and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-02 Elisha
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Then the men of the city said to Elisha, "Please note, our lord, that the city's location is good, as you can see. But the water is bad and the land is unfruitful."Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-02 Elisha
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"Bring me a new bowl," he replied, "and put some salt in it." So they brought it to him,Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-02 Elisha
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and Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, "This is what the LORD says: 'I have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness. '"Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-02 Elisha
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And the waters there have been healthy to this day, according to the word spoken by Elisha.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-02 Elisha
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From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!"Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-03 Elisha
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Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-03 Elisha
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And Elisha went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-03 Elisha
2 Kings 4
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Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!"Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-03 Elisha
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Then go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these jars, setting the full ones aside."Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-03 Elisha
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So she left him, and after she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing jars to her, and she kept pouring.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-03 Elisha
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Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there."Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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One day Elisha came to visit and went to his upper room to lie down.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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And he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call the Shunammite woman." And when he had called her, she stood before him,Read from ESV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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and Elisha said to Gehazi, "Now tell her, 'Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?'" "I have a home among my own people," she replied.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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"My head! My head!" he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.Read from NKJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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And the woman called her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return."Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, "Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you."Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, "Look, there is the Shunammite woman.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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Please run out now to meet her and ask, 'Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?'" And she answered, "Everything is all right."Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me."Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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Then she said, "Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn't I say, 'Do not deceive me?'"Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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So Elisha said to Gehazi, "Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy's face."Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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And the mother of the boy said, "As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So he got up and followed her.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy's face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, "The boy has not awakened."Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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Then Elisha got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, the boy's body became warm.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, "Call the Shunammite woman." So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, "Pick up your son."Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
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She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-04 Elisha
2 Kings 6
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Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-05 Elisha
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Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there." "Go," said Elisha.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-05 Elisha
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Then one of them said, "Please come with your servants." "I will come," he replied.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-05 Elisha
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So Elisha went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down some trees.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-05 Elisha
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As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. "Oh, my master," he cried out, "it was borrowed!"Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-05 Elisha
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"Where did it fall?" asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-05 Elisha
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"Lift it out," he said, and the man reached out his hand and took it.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-05 Elisha
2 Kings 13
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When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, saying, "My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!"Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-05 Elisha
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And Elisha died and was buried. Now the Moabite raiders used to come into the land every spring.Read from KJV · The Man of God
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Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man's body into Elisha's tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on his feet.Read from KJV · Skyland Conference 1979-05 Elisha