A prophet living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.19.16; son of: Shaphat (H8202H) Also named: Elissaios (Ἐλισσαῖος "Elisha" G1666) § Elisha = "God is salvation" the great prophet who succeeded Elijah
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1 Kings 19:16 · אֱלִישָׁ֤עYou are also to anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king over Israel and Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-meholah to succeed you as prophet.1 Kings 19:17 · אֱלִישָֽׁע׃Then Jehu will put to death whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death whoever escapes the sword of Jehu.1 Kings 19:19 · אֱלִישָׁ֤עSo Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.2 Kings 2:1 · וֶאֱלִישָׁ֖עShortly before the LORD took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal,2 Kings 2:2 · אֱלִישָׁ֜ע · אֱלִישָׁ֔עand Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Bethel.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.2 Kings 2:3 · אֱלִישָׁע֒Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”2 Kings 2:4 · אֱלִישָׁ֣ע׀And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Jericho.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.2 Kings 2:5 · אֱלִישָׁע֒Then the sons of the prophets at Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”2 Kings 2:9 · אֱלִישָׁע֙ · אֱלִישָׁ֔עAfter 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.2 Kings 2:12 · וֶאֱלִישָׁ֣עAs 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.2 Kings 2:14 · אֱלִישָֽׁע׃Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. And when he had struck the waters, they parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.2 Kings 2:15 · אֱלִישָׁ֑עWhen the sons of the prophets who were watching him from Jericho saw what had happened, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.2 Kings 2:19 · אֱלִישָׁ֔עThen 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.”2 Kings 2:22 · אֱלִישָׁ֖עAnd the waters there have been healthy to this day, according to the word spoken by Elisha.2 Kings 3:11 · אֱלִישָׁ֣עBut Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here? Let us inquire of the LORD through him.” And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shaphat is here. He used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.”2 Kings 3:13 · אֱלִישָׁ֜עElisha, however, said to the king of Israel, “What have we to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and of your mother!” “No,” replied the king of Israel, “for it is the LORD who has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”2 Kings 3:14 · אֱלִישָׁ֗עThen Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not for my regard for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not look at you or acknowledge you.2 Kings 4:1 · אֱלִישָׁ֜עNow 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!”2 Kings 4:2 · אֱלִישָׁע֙“How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”2 Kings 4:8 · אֱלִישָׁ֣עOne day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.2 Kings 4:17 · אֱלִישָֽׁע׃But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.2 Kings 4:32 · אֱלִישָׁ֖עWhen Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.2 Kings 4:38 · וֶאֱלִישָׁ֞עWhen Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”2 Kings 5:8 · אֱלִישָׁ֣עNow when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king: “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let the man come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.”2 Kings 5:9 · לֶאֱלִישָֽׁע׃So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha’s house.2 Kings 5:10 · אֱלִישָׁ֖עThen Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”2 Kings 5:20 · אֱלִישָׁ֣עGehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, by not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”2 Kings 5:25 · אֱלִישָׁ֔עWhen Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi, where have you been?” “Your servant did not go anywhere,” he replied.2 Kings 6:1 · אֱלִישָׁ֑עNow the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.2 Kings 6:12 · אֱלִישָׁ֤עBut one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”2 Kings 6:17 · אֱלִישָׁע֙ · אֱלִישָֽׁע׃Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.2 Kings 6:18 · אֱלִישָׁ֤ע · אֱלִישָֽׁע׃As the Arameans came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike these people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.2 Kings 6:19 · אֱלִישָׁ֗עAnd Elisha told them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will take you to the man you are seeking.” And he led them to Samaria.2 Kings 6:20 · אֱלִישָׁ֔עWhen they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men that they may see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes, and they looked around and discovered that they were in Samaria.2 Kings 6:21 · אֱלִישָׁ֔עAnd when the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”2 Kings 6:31 · אֱלִישָׁ֧עHe announced, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders through this day!”2 Kings 6:32 · וֶאֱלִישָׁע֙Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”2 Kings 7:1 · אֱלִישָׁ֔עThen Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’”2 Kings 8:1 · וֶאֱלִישָׁ֡עNow Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed that a seven-year famine will come to the land.”2 Kings 8:4 · אֱלִישָֽׁע׃Now the king had been speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things Elisha has done.”2 Kings 8:5 · אֱלִישָֽׁע׃And Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had revived came to appeal to the king for her house and her land. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”2 Kings 8:7 · אֱלִישָׁע֙Then Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.”2 Kings 8:10 · אֱלִישָׁ֔עElisha answered, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover.’ But the LORD has shown me that in fact he will die.”2 Kings 8:13 · אֱלִישָׁ֔ע“But how could your servant, a mere dog, do such a monstrous thing?” said Hazael. And Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”2 Kings 8:14 · אֱלִישָׁ֗ע · אֱלִישָׁ֑עSo Hazael left Elisha and went to his master, who asked him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he replied, “He told me that you would surely recover.”2 Kings 9:1 · וֶאֱלִישָׁע֙Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak under your belt, take this flask of oil, and go to Ramoth-gilead.2 Kings 13:14 · וֶֽאֱלִישָׁע֙When 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!”2 Kings 13:15 · אֱלִישָׁ֔עElisha told him, “Take a bow and some arrows.” So Jehoash took a bow and some arrows.2 Kings 13:16 · אֱלִישָׁ֛עThen Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow.” So the king put his hand on the bow, and Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands.2 Kings 13:17 · אֱלִישָׁ֤ע“Open the east window,” said Elisha. So he opened it and Elisha said, “Shoot!” So he shot. And Elisha declared: “This is the LORD’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram, for you shall strike the Arameans in Aphek until you have put an end to them.”2 Kings 13:20 · אֱלִישָׁ֖עAnd Elisha died and was buried. Now the Moabite raiders used to come into the land every spring.2 Kings 13:21 · אֱלִישָׁ֑ע · אֱלִישָׁ֔עOnce, 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.