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He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.
And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD.
Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
