2 Kings 2

And it happened, when God took up Elijah in a whirlwind {to} the heavens, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

And Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, please, because God has sent me to Bethel.” And Elisha said, “The life of God, and the life of your soul, if I should leave you.” And they went down {to} Bethel. \*

And sons of the prophets who {were in} Bethel came out to Elisha, and they said to him, “Do you know that today God is taking your master from over your head?” And he said, “I, I also know. Be quiet.”

And Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, please, because God has sent me {to} Jericho.” And he said, “The life of God, and the life of your soul, if I should leave you.” And they came {to} Jericho. \*

And sons of the prophets who {were} in Jericho drew near to Elisha, and they said to him, “Do you know that today God is taking your master from over your head?” And he said, “I, I also know. Be quiet.”

And Elijah said to him, “Stay here, please, because God has sent me to the Jordan.” And he said, “The life of God, and the life of your soul, if I should leave you.” And the two of them went on. \*

And fifty men from the sons of the prophets went, and they stood opposite at a distance. And the two of them stood by the Jordan.

And Elijah took his cloak and rolled {it} up, and he struck the waters, and they were divided, here and here. And the two of them crossed over on dry ground. \*

And it happened, when they had crossed over, that Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken from with you.” And Elisha said, “Then may a double portion of your spirit please be to me.”

And he said, “In asking, you have made difficult. If you see me being taken from with you, it will be thus for you. But if not, it will not be.” \*

And it happened, they were going, going and speaking, and behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire, and they separated between the two of them. And Elijah went up in a whirlwind {to} the heavens.

And Elisha was looking, and he was crying out, “My father, my father, the chariotry of Israel and its horsemen!” Then he no longer saw him. And he seized his clothes and tore them into two pieces. \*

And he lifted up the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from on him. And he returned, and he stood on the lip of the Jordan.

And he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from on him, and he struck the waters and said, “Where {is} God, the God of Elijah, even he?” And he struck the waters, and they were divided, here and here, and Elisha crossed over. \*

And sons of the prophets who {lived} in Jericho saw him from opposite, and they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha!” And they came to meet him, and they prostrated themselves to him, to the ground.

And they said to him, “Behold, please, there are with your servants fifty men, sons of valor. Please, let them go, and let them seek your master, lest the Spirit of God has lifted him up and thrown him onto one of the mountains or into one of the valleys.” And he said, “Do not send {them}.” \*

But they urged him until he felt shame, so he said, “Send {them}.” And they sent fifty men, and they searched three days, but they did not find him.

And they returned to him (and he was staying in Jericho), and he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?” \*

And the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, please, the dwelling place of the city {is} good, just as my lord is seeing. But the waters {are} bad, so the land is miscarrying.”

And he said, “Bring to me a new bowl, and put salt there.” And they brought {it} to him. \*

And he went out to the source of the waters, and he threw salt there. And he said, “Thus says God, ‘I have healed these waters. Death and miscarrying will not still be from there.’”

And the waters were healed, to this day, according to the word of Elisha that he spoke. \*

And he went up from there {to} Bethel, and he was going up on the road, and young men came out from the city, and they mocked him. And they said to him, “Go up, bald {one}! Go up, bald {one}!”

And he turned behind him, and he saw them, and he cursed them in the name of God. And two female bears came out from the forest, and they tore apart from them 42 of the boys.

And he went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned {to} Samaria. \*