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What do the jeers towards Elisha of “Go on up” mean?
When Elisha is jeered by youths in 2 Kings 2:23-25 he is told (as many translations have it) to "Go up" or "Go on up". The new NIV (2011) renders this as "Get out of here." Is this a fair translation ...
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Why was Elisha bald?
When Elisha is jeered by youths, he is at the beginning of his ministry which lasted approximately 50 years and so seemingly fairly young still. He is jeered, however, for being being bald. Did he ...
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How old were the youths mauled by bears?
In 2 Kings 2:23, a group of boys jeers Elisha. Various English translations render this "young boys", "young lads", "boys", "small boys". What kind of range does the Hebrew word behind this group of ...
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Why did the commanders put their garments under Jehu?
In 2 Kings 9 we read (ESV):
11 When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know the fellow and ...
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Why did Elisha rebuke Gehazi for things he did not accept from Naaman?
In 2 Kings 5:26 (ESV):
...“Did not my heart go when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male ...
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What does “when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength” mean in this context?
In 2 Kings 19 king Hezekiah faces a great threat to Jerusalem from the Assyrian king. He delivers a message to Isiah with the following words:
This day is a day of distress and rebuke and ...
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What is the literary purpose of not naming the king in 2 Kings 5-7?
Throughout the rest of Kings it seems perfectly normal for the narrator to give the name of any particular king (e.g. Ahab), even when that particular king is wicked (e.g. Ahab). But in 2 Kings 5-7, ...
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Why does Jehoash cry “The chariots and horsemen of Israel”?
When Elisha is about to die, Jehoash the king goes to visit Elisha and cries before him:
Now Elisha was suffering from the illness from which he died. Jehoash king of Israel went down to see him ...
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What is the purpose of Elijah's travels?
At the beginning of 2 Kings 2, Elijah travels from Gilgal to Bethel to Jericho to the Jordan before being taken up in the whirlwind. Elisha then mostly reverses this course crossing back over the ...
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Is Uzziah and Azariah name of the same king?
This is with reference to the two chapters :
2 Chronicles 26
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old,
and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2 He ...
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How did Elijah ascend to heaven?
In 2 Kings 2:11, it says that "...Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven".
Question: What does up mean in this verse?
Context: We know that if we stand on the surface of the earth and could ...
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Is Naaman impure?
In 2 Kings 5:10 we read:
וַיִּשְׁלַח אֵלָיו אֱלִישָׁע, מַלְאָךְ לֵאמֹר: הָלוֹךְ, וְרָחַצְתָּ שֶׁבַע-פְּעָמִים בַּיַּרְדֵּן, וְיָשֹׁב בְּשָׂרְךָ לְךָ וּטְהָר.
And Elisha sent a messenger unto ...
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How did the shadow move back ten steps in 2 Kings 20:8-11?
There are several things I'd like to know about this passage:
And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD on ...
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Who was a greater king: Hezekiah or Josiah?
About Hezekiah, we read in 2 Kings 18:5-6:
Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. He held fast to ...
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What exactly was the “death in the pot”
2 Kings 4:38-41 (NIV)
.. One of them .. found a wild vine and picked
... its gourds ... he cut them up into the pot of stew... they cried
out, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And ...
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What is the significance of the floating ax head in 2 Kings 6:1-7?
Now the company of prophets said to Elisha, "As you see, the place where we live under your charge is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan, and let us collect logs there, one for each of us, ...
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What do we learn from the different usages of “aman” and “batach” in the OT?
aman (Strong's H539) and batach (Strong's H982) are both used in the OT to imply some level of trust in God.
And he believed (aman:H539) in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. ...
