2 Kings 13:14

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Now Elisha became ill with the disease which was the cause of his death: and Joash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said, My father, my father, the war-carriages of Israel and its horsemen!

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  • 2 Kgs 2:12 : 12 And when Elisha saw it he gave a cry, My father, my father, the carriages of Israel and its horsemen! And he saw him no longer; and he was full of grief.
  • 2 Kgs 6:21 : 21 And the king of Israel, when he saw them, said to Elisha, My father, am I to put them to the sword?
  • 2 Kgs 20:1 : 1 In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near.
  • Ps 12:1 : 1 <For the chief music-maker on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David.> Send help, Lord, for mercy has come to an end; there is no more faith among the children of men.
  • Prov 11:11 : 11 By the blessing of the upright man the town is made great, but it is overturned by the mouth of the evil-doer.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.
  • Ezek 14:14 : 14 Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, only themselves would they keep safe by their righteousness, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 22:30 : 30 And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.
  • Zech 1:5 : 5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?
  • Mark 6:20 : 20 For Herod was in fear of John, being conscious that he was an upright and holy man, and kept him safe. And hearing him, he was much troubled; and he gave ear to him gladly.
  • John 11:3 : 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill.
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:
  • Phil 2:26 : 26 Because his heart was with you all, and he was greatly troubled because you had news that he was ill:
  • Gen 48:1 : 1 Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 2:12-13
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    12 And when Elisha saw it he gave a cry, My father, my father, the carriages of Israel and its horsemen! And he saw him no longer; and he was full of grief.

    13 Then he took up Elijah's robe, which had been dropped from him, and went back till he came to the edge of Jordan.

  • 2 Kgs 13:12-13
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    12 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, and the force with which he went to war against Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

    13 And Joash went to rest with his fathers and Jeroboam took his place as king; and Joash was put into the earth in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 13:15
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    15 Then Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows: and he took bow and arrows.

  • 2 Kgs 13:8-10
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    8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all he did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

    9 And Jehoahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Joash his son became king in his place.

    10 In the thirty-seventh year of the rule of Joash, king of Judah, Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for sixteen years.

  • 2 Kgs 13:20-21
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    20 And death came to Elisha and they put his body into the earth. Now in the spring of the year, armed bands of Moabites frequently came, overrunning the land.

    21 And while they were putting a dead man into the earth, they saw a band coming; and they put the man quickly into the place where Elisha's body was; and the dead man, on touching Elisha's bones, came to life again, and got up on his feet.

  • 2 Kgs 8:14-15
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    14 Then he went away from Elisha and came in to his master, who said to him, What did Elisha say to you? And his answer was, He said that you would certainly get well.

    15 Now on the day after, Hazael took the bed-cover, and making it wet with water, put it over Ben-hadad's face, causing his death: and Hazael became king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 14:16
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    16 And Jehoash went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 4:32
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    32 And when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his bed.

  • 2 Kgs 8:10-11
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    10 And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You will certainly get better; but the Lord has made it clear to me that only death is before him.

    11 And he kept his eyes fixed on him till he was shamed, and the man of God was overcome with weeping.

  • 2 Chr 35:24
    71%

    24 So his servants took him out of the line of war-carriages, and put him in his second carriage and took him to Jerusalem, where he came to his end, and they put his body in the resting-place of his fathers. And in all Judah and Jerusalem there was great weeping for Josiah.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
    71%

    37 And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 13:29-31
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    29 Then the prophet took up the body of the man of God and put it on the ass and took it back; and he came to the town to put the body to rest with weeping.

    30 And he put the body in the resting-place made ready for himself, weeping and sorrowing over it, saying, O my brother!

    31 And when he had put it to rest, he said to his sons, When I am dead, then you are to put my body into the earth with the body of this man of God, and put me by his bones so that my bones may be kept safe with his bones.

  • 1 Kgs 22:34-35
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    34 And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded.

    35 But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead.

  • 2 Kgs 6:21
    71%

    21 And the king of Israel, when he saw them, said to Elisha, My father, am I to put them to the sword?

  • 2 Kgs 3:10-13
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    10 And the king of Israel said, Here is trouble: for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them into the hands of Moab.

    11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no prophet of the Lord here, through whom we may get directions from the Lord? And one of the king of Israel's men said in answer, Elisha, the son of Shaphat, is here, who was servant to Elijah.

    12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the Lord is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

    13 But Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father and your mother. And the king of Israel said, No; for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them up into the hands of Moab.

  • 2 Chr 18:34
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    34 But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king of Israel was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans till the evening; and by sundown he was dead.

  • 2 Kgs 8:7
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    7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, was ill; and they said to him, The man of God has come.

  • 1 Kgs 14:18
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    18 And all Israel put his body to rest, weeping over him, as the Lord had said by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

  • 2 Kgs 1:16-17
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    16 And he said to him, This is the word of the Lord: Because you sent men to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, for this reason you will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.

    17 So death came to him, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah. And Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of the rule of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; because he had no son.

  • 2 Chr 24:22
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    22 So King Joash did not keep in mind how good Jehoiada his father had been to him, but put his son to death. And in the hour of his death he said, May the Lord see it and take payment!

  • 2 Kgs 5:8-9
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    8 Now Elisha, the man of God, hearing that the king of Israel had done this, sent to the king, saying, Why are you troubled? send the man to me, so that he may see that there is a prophet in Israel.

    9 So Naaman, with all his horses and his carriages, came to the door of Elisha's house.

  • 1 Kgs 17:20-21
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    20 And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?

    21 And stretching herself out on the child three times, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord my God, be pleased to let this child's life come back to him again.

  • 1 Kgs 14:13
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    13 And all Israel will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family of Jeroboam will be put into his resting-place in the earth; for of all the family of Jeroboam, in him only has the Lord, the God of Israel, seen some good.

  • 2 Chr 24:24-25
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    24 For though the army of Aram was only a small one, the Lord gave a very great army into their hands, because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers. So they put into effect the punishment of Joash.

    25 And when they had gone away from him, (for he was broken with disease,) his servants made a secret design against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they put him to death on his bed; and they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.

  • 2 Kgs 2:15
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    15 And when the sons of the prophets who were facing him at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha. And they came out to him, and went down on the earth before him.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17
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    17 Now after this, the son of the woman of the house became ill, so ill that there was no breath in him.

  • 2 Kgs 4:20
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    20 And he took him in to his mother, and she took him on her knees and kept him there till the middle of the day, when his life went from him.

  • 2 Kgs 8:29
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    29 So King Joram went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the bowmen had given him at Ramah, when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram, the son of Ahab, in Jezreel, because he was ill.

  • 2 Sam 19:1
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    1 And word was given to Joab that the king was weeping and sorrowing for Absalom.

  • 2 Kgs 23:30
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    30 And his servants took his body in a carriage from Megiddo to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth there. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and put the holy oil on him and made him king in place of his father.

  • 2 Chr 22:6
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    6 And he went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which they had given him at Ramah when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to Jezreel to see Jehoram, the son of Ahab, because he was ill.

  • 1 Kgs 22:32
    68%

    32 So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Truly, this is the king of Israel; and turning against him, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry.

  • 2 Kgs 13:25
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    25 And Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, took again from Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, the towns which he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Jehoash overcame him and got back the towns of Israel.