15 Now when the sons of the prophets who were afrom Jericho saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him, and bowed to the ground before him.
16 Then they said to him, “Look now, there are fifty strong men with your servants. Please let them go and search for your master, alest perhaps the Spirit of the Lord has taken him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.” And he said, “You shall not send anyone.”
17 But when they urged him till he was aashamed, he said, “Send them!” Therefore they sent fifty men, and they searched for three days but did not find him.
18 And when they came back to him, for he had stayed in Jericho, he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?”
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19 Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please notice, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the ground barren.”
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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Cross-references and similar verses for 2 Kings 2:17:
they urged.
2 Samuel 18:22
2 Samuel 18:23
Luke 11:8
Romans 10:2
found him not.
2 Kings 2:18
Hebrews 11:5
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