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2 Kings 2:18
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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’?”

Elisha Performs Miracles

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.”
20 And he said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.
21 Then he went out to the source of the water, and acast in the salt there, and said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘I have1 healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’ ”  
22 So the water remains ahealed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.  
23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
24 So he turned around and looked at them, and apronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.  
Verse Comparison: 2 Kings 2:18

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American Standard Version
And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho; and he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

Amplified® Bible
When they returned to Elisha, who had waited at Jericho, he said to them, Did I not tell you, Do not go?

Contemporary English Version
They returned to Jericho, and Elisha said, "I told you that you wouldn't find him."

Darby English Version
And they came again to him (now he was staying at Jericho); and he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not?

Good News Bible
Then they returned to Elisha, who had waited at Jericho, and he said to them, "Didn't I tell you not to go?"

King James Version
And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

New American Standard Bible
They returned to him while he was staying at Jericho; and he said to them, "Did I not say to you, `Do not go'?"

New International Version
When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, "Didn't I tell you not to go?"

New King James Version
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’?”

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
They returned to him while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Did I not say to you, 'Do not go'?"

Revised Standard Version
And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho, and he said to them, "Did I not say to you, Do not go?"

Young's Literal Translation
and they turn back unto him -- and he is abiding in Jericho -- and he saith unto them, `Did I not say unto you, Do not go?'


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