{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-11-01T13:37:55Z", "language": "en", "book": "2-kings-woh", "chapter": 2 }, "data": { "n": 2, "bookSlug": "2-kings-woh", "bookCode": "2KI-WOH", "refId": "", "title": "2 Kings 2 — Eliyahu (Elijah) taken up in the whirlwind; Elisha succeeds him", "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.0.0","sourceText":"Hebrew Masoretic text (Westminster Leningrad Codex base, Public Domain) — Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra","sourceLicense":"Public Domain","sourceUrl":"https://www.sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/II_Kings.2","sourceAccessedVia":"Sefaria v3 API","glossaryVersion":"2.78.0","overlayGlossaryVersion":"1.0.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-5-5 (translator)","claude-opus-5-5 (editor)"],"reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-11-01T11:30:00Z","status":"stable","reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-5-5 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-11-01T10:28:10Z","verdicts":[{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:1","status":"revise","citations":["HALOT s.v. šāmayim","BDB s.v. šāmayim","Cogan & Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc.","GEN-WOH-28:12 / 19:24 / 22:11 (corpus precedent: 'heaven(s)' for the divine realm)"],"reasoning":"Re-parse: bəhaʿălôṯ YHWH ʾeṯ-ʾēliyyāhû bassəʿārâ haššāmāyim. 'When YHWH was about to take ... up' (NRSV/NJPS) and 'in the whirlwind' (article kept) are approved. Proposed change: 'to the skies' -> 'to the heavens'. Here haššāmayim is the destination of a divine taking-up, and the central shamayim entry's own clause scales the rendering toward a numinous register in such contexts. genesis-woh already does this (GEN-WOH-28:12 'reached to the heavens', 19:24, 22:11), and the central human-ascent entry reads 'ascent to heaven'. At the canon's central Kings citation the more physical 'skies' is the lens-congenial choice, so the corpus's own precedent should decide. This is founder decision B."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:2","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. nepeš","HALOT s.v. nepeš"],"reasoning":"Line changed from 'as your soul lives' to 'as you yourself live'. ḥay-YHWH wəḥê-napšəḵā is an oath by the addressee's life; nepeš here is the person/life, not a separable soul, so the rendering (cf. NJPS 'as you live') is more exact than ASV. šēḇ-nāʾ p̄ōh; Beit-El. Approved."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:3","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. bēn","Cogan & Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc."],"reasoning":"bənê-hannəḇîʾîm kept as 'the sons of the prophets', with the membership sense in commentary; lōqēaḥ (participle) 'is taking'; mēʿal rōʾšeḵā; heḥĕšû. Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:4","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Second test; oath as v 2. Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:5","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"As v 3 with wayyiggəšû 'came near'. Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Third test; wayyēləḵû šənêhem 'the two of them went on'. Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:7","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"minneḡeḏ mērāḥôq 'opposite them at a distance'; ûšənêhem ʿāmḏû ʿal-hayyardēn. Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:8","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wayyiḡlōm 'rolled it up'; wayyēḥāṣû hēnnâ wāhēnnâ; beḥārāḇâ 'on dry ground'. Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:9","status":"approve","citations":["Cogan & Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc.","BDB s.v. pî","BDB s.v. rûaḥ"],"reasoning":"Line changed from 'spirit' to 'ruach'. pî-šənayim bərûḥăḵā: 'a double portion' is right for the Deut 21:17 heir's share. Transliterating rûaḥ to keep the lexeme visibly identical across vv 9, 15, 16 is a declared, inferred convention with corpus precedent (ezekiel-woh) and is not lens-driven; the commentary gives the charismatic sense plainly."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:10","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"hiqšîṯā lišʾôl; ʾim-tirʾeh ʾōṯî luqqāḥ mēʾittāḵ yəhî-ləḵā ḵēn. Exact, without ASV's supplied '[nevertheless]'."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:11","status":"revise","citations":["Cogan & Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc.","HALOT s.v. səʿārâ","HALOT s.v. šāmayim","The Book Which Tells the Truth (TBWTT) ch. 3 (text verified in data-library/the-book-which-tells-the-truth/chapter-3.json)"],"reasoning":"Re-parse: verbless presentative wəhinnēh rekeḇ-ʾēš wəsûsê ʾēš, plural wayyaprîḏû bên šənêhem, wayyaʿal ʾēliyyāhû bassəʿārâ haššāmāyim. Everything except the last phrase is approved as exact, and better than ASV, which supplies 'there appeared'. The commentary's point that the storm, not the chariot, carries Eliyahu up is accurate and cuts against the canon's reading. Proposed change as at v 1: 'to the skies' -> 'to the heavens' (founder decision B)."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:12","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. pārāš","Cogan & Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc."],"reasoning":"Participles rōʾeh / məṣaʿēq rendered 'was seeing ... was crying out'; ʾāḇî ʾāḇî rekeḇ yiśrāʾēl ûp̄ārāšāyw = ASV; the lexical identity of rekeḇ with v 11 is in commentary; lišnayim qərāʿîm. Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:13","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wayyārem ʾeṯ-ʾadderet ʾēliyyāhû ʾăšer nāp̄əlâ mēʿālāyw; ʿal-śəp̄aṯ hayyardēn. Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:14","status":"revise","citations":["Wickes, A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Twenty-One So-called Prose Books of the Old Testament (1887), on legarmeh/paseq","GKC §15 (accents)","Cogan & Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc.","LXX 4 Kgdms 2:14 (aphphō)"],"reasoning":"The English line is approved. The commentary states the Masoretic accentuation backwards. In the source the etnaḥta falls on ʾēliyyāhû, so the first half-verse ends with the question 'Where is YHWH, the Elohim of Eliyahu?'. ʾap̄-hûʾ (munaḥ + paseq, i.e. legarmeh) opens the second half, which is the construal the translation adopts ('And when he too had struck the waters'). Rewrite: the accents support the adopted reading; LXX aphphō and the alternative 'even he?' are the departures. Make the matching fix in the mt-baseline overlay entry."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:15","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. rûaḥ"],"reasoning":"Line changed from 'spirit' to 'ruach'. nāḥâ rûaḥ ʾēliyyāhû ʿal-ʾĕlîšāʿ: consistent with v 9 under the inferred ruach convention; minneḡeḏ 'from opposite'; wayyištaḥăwû-lô ʾārṣâ. Approved."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:16","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. rûaḥ","HALOT s.v. rûaḥ","Tov 2012 on Ketiv/Qere"],"reasoning":"Ketiv hgyʾwt / Qere haggēʾāyôṯ verified (orthographic). pen-nəśāʾô rûaḥ YHWH wayyašlīḵēhû: 'the ruach of YHWH' leaves the spirit/wind ambiguity open. The commentary voices the 'wind' hearing after v 11 but presents both and does not choose, so this is not leakage. bənê-ḥayil 'strong men'; lōʾ ṯišlāḥû. Approved."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:17","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wayyip̄ṣərû-ḇô ʿaḏ-bōš 'until he was ashamed'; šəlōšâ-yāmîm. Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:18","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:19","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. šāḵōl"],"reasoning":"môšaḇ hāʿîr ṭôḇ; wəhāʾāreṣ məšakkāleṯ 'the land miscarries' (ASV). Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:20","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ṣəlōḥîṯ"],"reasoning":"ṣəlōḥîṯ ḥăḏāšâ 'a new bowl' (NRSV 'bowl'; ASV 'cruse'): a lexically defensible choice for a hapax. Exact otherwise."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:21","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"môṣāʾ hammayim 'the spring of the waters'; rippīṯî lammayim hāʾēlleh; māweṯ ûməšakkāleṯ. Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:22","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wayyērāp̄û hammayim ʿaḏ hayyôm hazzeh. Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:23","status":"approve","citations":["Cogan & Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc."],"reasoning":"nəʿārîm qəṭannîm 'young lads'; wayyiṯqalləsû-ḇô 'jeered'; ʿălēh qērēaḥ. Exact; the age-range discussion is honest."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:24","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wayyip̄en ʾaḥărāyw; wayqalləlēm bəšēm YHWH; šətayim dubbîm ... ʾarbāʿîm ûšənê yəlāḏîm. Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:25","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Exact."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"hebrew-proper-name-transliteration-convention-kings","status":"flag-for-human","citations":["Cogan, I Kings (AB 10; 2001), ad loc.","genesis-woh / exodus-woh name practice (Avraham, Ya'aqov, Beit-El; Yisra'el, Aharon) vs isaiah-woh / ezekiel-woh / daniel-woh English forms (checked in the data)"],"reasoning":"The rendering is philologically sound: forms are transliterated, short and long MT forms are normalized with a note, and the equivalence table is complete. claim_type direct is right for a presentation convention with no interpretive content. It is flagged only because it is the open founder decision A. Reviewer recommendation: retain transliteration, which continues the Torah-narrative volumes and keeps the 'my El is Yah' / 18:39 wordplay visible; add the English form to each chapter title (e.g. 'Eliyahu (Elijah) ...') for discoverability."},{"glossary_id":"nefesh-scope-and-spelling-kings","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. nepeš","Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament (1974)"],"reasoning":"Scope is correct: the word is transliterated only where nepeš names the returning life (17:21-22) and rendered idiomatically in fixed idioms. 'as you yourself live' for ḥê-napšəḵā is accurate (cf. NJPS). The spelling unification depends on the central tzet-nephesh op shipping together with the GEN-WOH-35:18 respelling."},{"glossary_id":"ruach-yhwh-and-prophetic-ruach-transliteration-kings","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. rûaḥ","HALOT s.v. rûaḥ","EZK-WOH-37:1 corpus precedent","Cogan & Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc."],"reasoning":"Inferred is the right label: transliteration deliberately leaves a recognized wind/spirit ambiguity unresolved, and the rationale admits the 'wind' reading of rûaḥ YHWH is a minority one. Is leaving the word untranslated lens-leaning? Reviewer finding: no. 'Spirit' would itself be the more interpretive choice, the convention is pre-existing (ezekiel-woh), and physical wind is still translated 'wind' (1 Kgs 18:45; 19:11). Non-blocking: the appliesTo list includes 1KI-WOH-19:11, where the entry's rule yields 'wind', which is consistent but worth stating in the wohChoice."},{"glossary_id":"ketiv-qere-qere-translated-kings","status":"approve","citations":["Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (3rd ed. 2012), on Ketiv/Qere"],"reasoning":"All six sites were re-checked in the source and none was missed: 17:14 (tttn/tēt), 17:15 (hwʾ-whyʾ / hîʾ wāhûʾ), 18:36, 18:42, 19:4, 2 Kgs 2:16. The Qere is translated each time and the Ketiv recorded. Direct confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"mt-baseline-at-versional-cruxes-and-versification-kings","status":"revise","citations":["Wickes, Treatise on the Accentuation of the Twenty-One So-called Prose Books (1887)","LXX 4 Kgdms 2:14","Burney, Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Books of Kings (1903)","Cogan, I Kings (AB 10; 2001), ad loc."],"reasoning":"The principle and the 18:33-34 versification note are correct (MT 18:33 ends at 'laid it on the wood'; ASV 18:33 already includes the jar command). Fix the 2 Kgs 2:14 item: it is not a site where the line departs from the Masoretic reading. The etnaḥta on ʾēliyyāhû puts ʾap̄-hûʾ at the head of the second half-verse, so the adopted construal is the Masoretic one, and LXX aphphō is the alternative. Restate as 'MT accentuation followed; LXX aphphō in commentary'."},{"glossary_id":"bene-ha-neviim-sons-of-the-prophets-kings","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. bēn","Wilson, Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel (1980)"],"reasoning":"Membership sense of bēn + group noun is standard; ASV form kept with explanation. Direct confirmed. (Reviewer has not checked the GKC §128v locator cited in the rationale.)"},{"glossary_id":"pi-shenayim-double-portion-2-kings-2-9","status":"approve","citations":["Cogan & Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc.","Deut 21:17; Zech 13:8 (MT)"],"reasoning":"Reading this as the heir's share is the standard scholarly interpretation, and 'a double portion' is conventional and accurate. Direct confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"rekhev-esh-susei-esh-chariot-and-horses-of-fire-2-kings-2-11","status":"approve","citations":["Cogan & Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc.","HALOT s.v. pārāš"],"reasoning":"Literal construct chains, nothing supplied, plural verb kept. The canon reading is confined to a labelled note. Direct confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:version 2.77.0->2.78.0","status":"approve","citations":["data-library glossary scopeNote history (GEN-21:17 malakh-yhwh-messenger 'semver-major correction' shipped as 2.x minor)"],"reasoning":"House practice consistently increments the minor version for appliesTo extensions and labelled corrections, and no wohChoice decision is reversed, so 2.78.0 is right. Strictly applied, the SKILL/editor docs would demand 3.0.0; the docs, not this release, should be brought into line with practice. The only surface-affecting change is the tzet-nephesh respelling, which is acceptable in a minor release provided GEN-WOH-35:18 is respelled in the same release."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:ruach-se'arah (modify)","status":"approve","citations":["MT 2 Kgs 2:1, 11; Jer 23:19; 30:23; Ps 107:25; 148:8"],"reasoning":"The correction is right: 2 Kgs 2 has bare bassĕʿārâ and Jeremiah has saʿărat YHWH. Non-blocking precision: Ezek 13:11, 13 read rûaḥ sĕʿārôt (plural), so say 'rûaḥ sĕʿārâ / sĕʿārôt'."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:min-ha-se-arah (modify)","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. səʿārâ","BDB s.v. səʿārâ"],"reasoning":"The scope split is clean: the compound is 'stormy wind' and the bare noun 'whirlwind', with the lexical caveat stated. Conditional: the rationale quotes 'in the whirlwind to the skies'. If founder decision B adopts 'heavens', update the quoted phrase."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:shamayim (modify)","status":"revise","citations":["HALOT s.v. šāmayim","BDB s.v. šāmayim","genesis-woh English lines GEN-WOH-14:19, 22; 15:5; 19:24; 21:17; 22:11, 15, 17; 24:3, 7; 26:4; 28:12, 17 (checked)"],"reasoning":"Dropping 'grammatically dual' is right, though the reviewer did not check the GKC §88d / Joüon-Muraoka §91f locators. The new 'corpus note' is factually wrong. It says genesis-woh applies 'skies' and that exodus-woh's 'heavens' is an unrecorded drift, but genesis-woh renders 'heaven/heavens' at about 13 sites where šāmayim is the divine realm or source (e.g. 19:24 'fire ... out of the heavens', 28:12 'reached to the heavens'). Corpus practice is the context-scaling the entry already allows, not an Exodus-only drift. Rewrite the note accordingly, and decide 2KI-WOH-2:1, 2:11 by founder decision B (reviewer recommends 'heavens' and removing them from appliesTo or adding a scoped sub-rule)."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:chei-x-oath-by-the-life-formula (appliesTo)","status":"approve","citations":["Source re-check of each added refId"],"reasoning":"appliesTo-only extension, checked against the base: no existing refId lost, no duplicates, and each added Kings refId contains the governed lexeme or formula."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:doubled-name-call-theophanic-formula (appliesTo)","status":"approve","citations":["Source re-check of each added refId"],"reasoning":"appliesTo-only extension, checked against the base: no existing refId lost, no duplicates, and each added Kings refId contains the governed lexeme or formula."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:bethel-luz-name-etymology (appliesTo)","status":"approve","citations":["Source re-check of each added refId"],"reasoning":"appliesTo-only extension, checked against the base: no existing refId lost, no duplicates, and each added Kings refId contains the governed lexeme or formula."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:ad-ha-yom-ha-zeh-aetiological-formula (appliesTo)","status":"approve","citations":["Source re-check of each added refId"],"reasoning":"appliesTo-only extension, checked against the base: no existing refId lost, no duplicates, and each added Kings refId contains the governed lexeme or formula."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:navi-first-occurrence-abraham (appliesTo)","status":"approve","citations":["Source re-check of each added refId"],"reasoning":"appliesTo-only extension, checked against the base: no existing refId lost, no duplicates, and each added Kings refId contains the governed lexeme or formula."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:1","concern":"'to the skies' for haššāmayim as the destination of YHWH's taking-up. The lexeme supports 'sky', but at the Raëlian canon's central Kings citation the most physical register is the lens-congenial option, and the corpus elsewhere (GEN-WOH-28:12, 19:24, 22:11; central human-ascent entry) uses 'heaven(s)' for the divine realm. The ambiguity is declared in commentary, so this is a register concern, not an interpolation. Recommend 'to the heavens' (founder decision B)."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-2:11","concern":"Same as 2:1 ('went up in the whirlwind to the skies'). The rest of the verse is literal (no 'there appeared', no technical vocabulary), and the commentary correctly says the storm, not the chariot, is the vehicle."}],"lensLeakageCheck":"Checked all 25 lines. Two register flags: 2:1, 2:11 'to the skies' (see lens-leakage-flags). Otherwise 2:11 is literal ('chariot of fire', 'horses of fire', 'whirlwind', plural verb, nothing supplied), and the canon's craft reading is confined to a labelled note. The 'ruach' transliteration at 2:9, 15, 16 is a declared inferred convention with both readings in commentary, and is not leakage.","escalationReportAdjustments":"Initial verdicts on all verses, overlay entries and central ops were formed from the chapters, source, overlays and diff before opening wave-a-editor-report.md. After reading it, no verdict changed. The report's Founder point B says 'skies' 'matches genesis-woh, job-woh and ezekiel-woh' and holds 'across the corpus'. A corpus check shows genesis-woh uses 'heaven(s)' at about 13 divine-realm sites (e.g. GEN-WOH-19:24, 28:12), which strengthens the reviewer's 'revise' at 2 Kgs 2:1, 11 and on the central shamayim op. The report's confirmation that 1KI-WOH-18:38 depends on applying esh-yhwh-fire-of-yhwh is recorded in that op's reasoning.","founderDecisionRecommendations":{"A-proper-names":"Retain Hebrew transliteration (continuity with genesis-woh/exodus-woh narrative volumes; theophoric wordplay at 1 Kgs 18:39 stays visible; mechanically reversible). Add the English form to chapter titles for discoverability.","B-shamayim-at-2-Kgs-2:1,11":"Render 'to the heavens' at 2 Kgs 2:1, 11 (corpus precedent GEN-WOH-28:12 etc.; central shamayim's numinous-register clause; central human-ascent entry). Keep 'skies' at 1 Kgs 18:45 and 2 Kgs 1:10, 12, 14 (meteorological / Job 1:16 precedent)."},"summary":"25 verdicts: 22 approve, 3 revise (2:1 and 2:11 'to the skies' -> 'to the heavens', founder decision B; 2:14 commentary reverses the Masoretic accentuation: etnaḥta on ʾēliyyāhû puts ʾap̄-hûʾ with the second half, which supports the adopted line). The changed lines at 2:2, 4, 6 ('as you yourself live') and 2:9, 15, 16 ('ruach') are approved. K/Q at 2:16 verified."}}, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:1", "text": "And it came to pass, when YHWH was about to take Eliyahu up in the whirlwind to the heavens, that Eliyahu and Elisha went from Gilgal." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:2", "text": "And Eliyahu said to Elisha, \"Please stay here, for YHWH has sent me as far as Beit-El.\" And Elisha said, \"As YHWH lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.\" So they went down to Beit-El." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:3", "text": "And the sons of the prophets who were at Beit-El came out to Elisha and said to him, \"Do you know that today YHWH is taking your master from over your head?\" And he said, \"I too know it; be silent.\"" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:4", "text": "And Eliyahu said to him, \"Elisha, please stay here, for YHWH has sent me to Yericho.\" And he said, \"As YHWH lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.\" So they came to Yericho." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:5", "text": "And the sons of the prophets who were at Yericho came near to Elisha and said to him, \"Do you know that today YHWH is taking your master from over your head?\" And he said, \"I too know it; be silent.\"" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:6", "text": "And Eliyahu said to him, \"Please stay here, for YHWH has sent me to the Yarden.\" And he said, \"As YHWH lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.\" And the two of them went on." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:7", "text": "And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite them at a distance; and the two of them stood by the Yarden." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:8", "text": "And Eliyahu took his mantle and rolled it up and struck the waters, and they were divided this way and that, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:9", "text": "And it came to pass, when they had crossed over, that Eliyahu said to Elisha, \"Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken from you.\" And Elisha said, \"Please let there be a double portion of your ruach upon me.\"" },{ "n": 10, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:10", "text": "And he said, \"You have asked a hard thing. If you see me taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be.\"" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:11", "text": "And it came to pass, as they were still going on and talking, that behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire, and they separated the two of them; and Eliyahu went up in the whirlwind to the heavens." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:12", "text": "And Elisha was seeing it, and he was crying out, \"My father, my father, the chariots of Yisra'el and its horsemen!\" And he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own garments and tore them in two pieces." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:13", "text": "And he picked up the mantle of Eliyahu that had fallen from him, and went back and stood on the bank of the Yarden." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:14", "text": "And he took the mantle of Eliyahu that had fallen from him and struck the waters and said, \"Where is YHWH, the Elohim of Eliyahu?\" And when he too had struck the waters, they were divided this way and that; and Elisha crossed over." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:15", "text": "And when the sons of the prophets who were at Yericho saw him from opposite, they said, \"The ruach of Eliyahu rests on Elisha.\" And they came to meet him and bowed down to him to the ground." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:16", "text": "And they said to him, \"Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; please let them go and seek your master, lest the ruach of YHWH has taken him up and cast him on one of the mountains or into one of the valleys.\" And he said, \"You shall not send.\"" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:17", "text": "And when they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, \"Send.\" So they sent fifty men, and they searched for three days but did not find him." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:18", "text": "And they came back to him while he was staying at Yericho; and he said to them, \"Did I not say to you, 'Do not go'?\"" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:19", "text": "And the men of the city said to Elisha, \"Behold now, the situation of the city is good, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land miscarries.\"" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:20", "text": "And he said, \"Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.\" And they brought it to him." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:21", "text": "And he went out to the spring of the waters and threw salt there and said, \"Thus says YHWH: 'I have healed these waters; from there there shall be no more death or miscarrying.'\"" },{ "n": 22, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:22", "text": "So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:23", "text": "And he went up from there to Beit-El; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out of the city and jeered at him and said to him, \"Go up, baldhead! Go up, baldhead!\"" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:24", "text": "And he turned behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of YHWH. And two she-bears came out of the forest and tore forty-two children of them." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "2KI-WOH-2:25", "text": "And he went from there to Mount Karmel, and from there he returned to Shomron." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/2-kings-woh/chapters/2", "book": "/v1/library/books/2-kings-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/2-kings-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }