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Elijah told Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel. Some members of the prophetic guild[a] in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?”[b] He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 2:3 tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”
  2. 2 Kings 2:3 tn Heb “from your head.” The same expression occurs in v. 5.