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not leaue thee. So they went both together. And haue healed this water: death shall no more come
fiftie men of the sonnes of the Prophets went and thereof, neither barennesse to the ground. 22 So
stoode on the other side a farre off, and they two the waters were healed vntill this day, according
stoode by Iorden. 8 Then Eliiah tooke his cloke, to the worde of Elisha which hee had spoken.
and wrapt it together, and smote the waters, and 23 And he went vp from thence vnto Beth-el. And
they were deuided hither and thither, and they as he was going vp the way, litle children came
twaine went ouer on the dry lande. Nowe when out of the citie, and mocked him, and saide vnto
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they were passed ouer, Eliiah saide vnto Elisha, him, Come vp, thou balde head, come vp, thou
Aske what I shall doe for thee before I be taken balde head. 24 And he turned backe, and looked
from thee. And Elisha saide, I pray thee, let thy on them, and cursed them in the name of the
Spirit be double vpon me. 10 And he saide, Thou Lord. And two beares came out of the forest, and
tare in pieces two and fourtie children of them.
hast asked an hard thing: yet if thou see me when 25 So he went from thence to mount Carmel, and
I am taken from thee, thou shalt haue it so: and from thence he returned to Samaria.
if not, it shall not be. 11 And as they went walking
and talking, beholde, there appeared a charet of 3
fire, and horses of fire, and did separate them
twaine. So Eliiah went vp by a whirle winde into 1 Nowe Iehoram the sonne of Ahab beganne
heauen. 12 And Elisha saw it, and he cryed, My to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, the eighteenth
father, my father, the charet of Israel, and the yeere of Iehoshaphat King of Iudah, and reigned
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horsementhereof: andhesawehimnomore: and twelue yeeres. And he wrought euill in the sight
he tooke his owne clothes, and rent them in two of the Lord, but not like his father nor like his
pieces. 13 He tooke vp also the cloke of Eliiah that mother: for he tooke away the image of Baal that
fell from him, and returned, and stoode by the his father had made. Neuerthelesse, he cleaued
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banke of Iorden. 14 After, he tooke the cloke of vnto the sinnes of Ieroboam, the sonne of Nebat,
Eliiah, that fell from him, and smote the waters, which made Israel to sinne, and departed not
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and sayde, Where is the Lord God of Eliiah? And therefrom. Then Mesha King of Moab had store
so he also, after he had striken the waters, so that of sheepe, and rendred vnto the King of Israel
they were deuided this way and that way, went an hundreth thousande lambes, and an hundreth
ouer, euen Elisha. 15 And when the children of thousande rammes with the wooll. 5 But when
the Prophets, which were at Iericho, saw him on Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against
the other side, they sayde, The Spirite of Eliiah the King of Israel. Therefore King Iehoram went
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doeth rest on Elisha: and they came to meete out of Samaria the same season, and nombred
him, and fell to the grounde before him, 16 And all Israel, 7 And went, and sent to Iehoshaphat
said vnto him, Beholde nowe, there be with thy King of Iudah, saying, The King of Moab hath
seruants fiftie strong men: let them go, we pray rebelled against me: wilt thou goe with me to
thee, and seeke thy master, if so be the Spirite of battell against Moab? And he answered, I will
the Lord hath taken him vp, and cast him vpon goe vp: for I am, as thou art, my people, as thy
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some mountaine, or into some valley. But he said, people, and mine horses as thine horses. Then
Ye shall not sende. 17 Yet they were instant vpon said he, What way shall we goe vp? And he
him, til he was ashamed: wherefore he saide, answered, The way of the wildernesse of Edom.
Sende. So they sent fiftie men, which sought 9 So went the King of Israel and the king of
three dayes, but founde him not. 18 Therefore Iudah, and the King of Edom, and when they
they returned to him, (for he taryed at Iericho) had compassed the way seuen dayes, they had
and he said vnto them, Did not I say vnto you, no water for the hoste, nor for the cattell that
Goe not? 19 And the men of the citie saide vnto followed them. 10 Therefore the King of Israel
Elisha, Beholde, we pray thee: the situation of sayde, Alas, that the Lord hath called these three
this citie is pleasant, as thou, my lorde, seest, Kings, to giue them into the hand of Moab. 11 But
but the water is naught, and the ground baren. Iehoshaphat saide, Is there not here a Prophet
20 Then he saide, Bring me a newe cruse, and put of the Lord, that we may inquire of the Lord by
salt therein. And they brought it to him. 21 And him? And one of the King of Israels seruants
he went vnto the spring of the waters, and cast answered, and said, Here is Elisha the sonne of
there the salt, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I Shaphat, which powred water on the handes of
Eliiah. 12 Then Iehoshaphat saide, The worde of