2 Kings 13:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 2 Kgs 24:2 : 2 And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.
  • 2 Kgs 3:7 : 7 And he sent to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has got free from my authority: will you go with me to make war on Moab? And he said, I will go with you: I am as you are, my people as your people, and my horses as your horses.
  • 2 Kgs 3:24-27 : 24 But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them; 25 Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it. 26 And when the king of Moab saw that the fight was going against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords, with the idea of forcing a way through to the king of Aram, but they were not able to do so. 27 Then he took his oldest son, who would have been king after him, offering him as a burned offering on the wall. So there was great wrath against Israel; and they went away from him, back to their country.
  • 2 Kgs 5:2 : 2 Now the Aramaeans had gone out in bands, and taken prisoner from Israel a little girl, who became servant to Naaman's wife.
  • 2 Kgs 6:23 : 23 So he made ready a great feast for them, and when they had had food and drink, he sent them away and they went back to their master. And no more bands of Aramaeans came into the land of Israel.
  • 2 Chr 24:16 : 16 And they put him into his last resting-place in the town of David, among the kings, because he had done good in Israel for God and for his house.
  • Acts 8:2 : 2 And God-fearing men put Stephen's body in its last resting-place, making great weeping over him.
  • Judg 3:12 : 12 Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes.
  • Judg 6:3-6 : 3 And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them; 4 And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses. 5 For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction. 6 And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.
  • 2 Kgs 3:5 : 5 But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel.

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  • 2 Kgs 13:21
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    21And 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.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
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    37And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 1:1
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    1After the death of Ahab, Moab made itself free from the authority of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 3:5
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    5But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 13:29-32
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    74%

    29Then 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.

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

    31And 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.

    32For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.

  • 2 Kgs 13:13-15
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    74%

    13And 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.

    14Now 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!

    15Then Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows: and he took bow and arrows.

  • 2 Kgs 1:16-17
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    72%

    16And 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.

    17So 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 Kgs 4:32
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    32And when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his bed.

  • 2 Kgs 2:13
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    13Then he took up Elijah's robe, which had been dropped from him, and went back till he came to the edge of Jordan.

  • 1 Kgs 20:22
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    22Then the prophet came up to the king of Israel, and said to him, Now make yourself strong, and take care what you do, or a year from now the king of Aram will come up against you again.

  • 2 Kgs 13:9
    69%

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

  • 2 Kgs 3:23-24
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    23Then they said, This is blood: it is clear that destruction has come on the kings; they have been fighting one another: now come, Moab, let us take their goods.

    24But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them;

  • 2 Kgs 2:15
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    15And 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.

  • 2 Kgs 3:21
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    21Now all Moab, hearing that the kings had come to make war against them, got together all who were able to take up arms and went forward to the edge of the country.

  • 2 Kgs 8:15
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    15Now 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.

  • 1 Kgs 14:12
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    12Up, then! go back to your house; and in the hour when your feet go into the town, the death of the child will take place.

  • 2 Chr 24:23
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    23Now in the spring, the army of the Aramaeans came up against him; they came against Judah and Jerusalem, putting to death all the great men of the people and sending all the goods they took from them to the king of Damascus.

  • 2 Kgs 7:20
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    20And such was his fate; for he was crushed to death under the feet of the people, in the doorway into the town.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1
    68%

    1Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.

  • Judg 3:30
    68%

    30So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.

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

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

  • Isa 16:14
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    14But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.

  • 2 Kgs 8:10
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    10And 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.

  • Isa 15:1
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    1The word about Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer; for in a night Kir of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer.

  • 2 Kgs 7:17
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    17And the king gave authority to that captain, on whose arm he was supported, to have control over the doorway into the town; but he was crushed to death there under the feet of the people, as the man of God had said when the king went down to him.

  • 2 Kgs 2:1
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    1Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a great wind, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

  • 2 Kgs 3:13
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    13But 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 20:1
    67%

    1Now after this, the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunim, made war against Jehoshaphat.

  • 2 Kgs 3:26
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    26And when the king of Moab saw that the fight was going against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords, with the idea of forcing a way through to the king of Aram, but they were not able to do so.

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

  • Deut 34:5
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    5So death came to Moses, the servant of the Lord, there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said.

  • 2 Chr 16:13
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    13So Asa went to rest with his fathers, and death came to him in the forty-first year of his rule.

  • 2 Kgs 4:20
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    20And 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.

  • 1 Kgs 21:17
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    17And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • Amos 2:2
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    2And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries and the sound of the horn:

  • 2 Kgs 3:10
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    10And 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.

  • 2 Chr 20:10
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    10And now, see, the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, whom you kept Israel from attacking when they came out of Egypt, so that turning to one side they did not send destruction on them:

  • 2 Kgs 9:35
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    35And they went out to put her body into the earth, but nothing of her was to be seen, only the bones of her head, and her feet, and parts of her hands.

  • 2 Kgs 1:4
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    4Give ear then to the words of the Lord: You will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you. Then Elijah went away.

  • 1 Kgs 13:22
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    22But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 20:26
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    26So, a year later, Ben-hadad got the Aramaeans together and went up to Aphek to make war on Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 13:24
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    24Then Hazael, king of Aram, came to his end; and Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.