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about Elisha, a Prophet in Samaria who Israel. With Jonadab the son of Rechab,
could heal the leprosy. When Naaman King Jehu decided to wipe out the
heard this, he introduced it to his King, Baalism in Israel, as he prepared eighty
who wrote a letter to the King of Israel people who perished all the priests and
to receive and heal Naaman. But when worshipers of Baal, and wiped out the
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the King of Israel read the letter, he Baalism in Israel (2 Kings 9-10).
was furious and rented his clothes as
he saw it as an aggression of the King When the forty-two boys mocked Elisha
of Assyria. When Elisha heard about while he was doing the work of the Lord,
it, he courageously sent to the King saying to him, “Go up, you baldhead!
saying, “…let him come now to me, that Go up, you baldhead!” He was furious
he may know that there is a prophet in and courageously cursed them, and two
Israel.” When Naaman went to Elisha, she-bears came out of the woods and
the prophet ordered him to dip himself tore all the boys (2 Kings 2:23-25).
seven times into the River Jordan.
Naaman hesitated, but his servants Prophet Elisha on the importance of
urged him to do so, and he was healed (2 making the right decisions at the right
Kings 5:1-19). time
Elisha purified the spring water so that
Five: He made the iron float. people may have some water. It was
When Elisha saw that the place they when the city men went to Elisha, crying
were living was so small, he went to about the bad water and the unfruitful
the River Jordan to cut trees for the land. Therefore, Prophet Elisha rightly
building. However, when his servant decided to ask for a new bowl and put
fell down a log, the axe head fell into salt in it, and in the name of the Lord,
the water, and he cried out, “Alas my he threw the salt into the spring of the
master it was borrowed.” Then, Elisha water, and it was purified and caused
courageously cut a tree branch, dipped it neither death nor miscarriage (2 Kings
into the water, and the axe head floated. 2:19-21).
Thus, he ordered his servant to take it (2
Kings 6:1-7).
In addition, Prophet Elisha confronted
the king of Samaria, who threatened him
Elisha courageously recruited King Jehu with a death sentence. He courageously
and led him to a holy war that destroyed answered him using God’s prophecy that
Omri’s house in Jerusalem and Samaria. good quality food would be available
The destruction was ordered by Elisha, for a shekel by the following day. The
who instructed one of the sons of the prophecy shows that man by himself has
prophets to anoint Jehu as King over
nothing but God’s will (2 Kings 7:1-2).

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