2 Kings 2:8

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Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the water with it. The water divided to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

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  • 1 Kgs 19:19 : 19 Elijah left from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen, and he was with the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak over him.
  • 2 Kgs 2:14 : 14 He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. 'Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?' he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.
  • Exod 14:21-22 : 21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind all night and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided. 22 The Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
  • 1 Kgs 19:13 : 13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak, went out, and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then a voice came to him, saying, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?'
  • Josh 3:14-17 : 14 So when the people set out from their tents to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them. 15 Now as the priests who carried the ark came to the Jordan, and their feet touched the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the harvest season), 16 the water flowing down from upstream stood still. It rose up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam near Zarethan. Meanwhile, the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off, and the people crossed opposite Jericho. 17 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed on dry ground until the entire nation had finished crossing the Jordan.
  • Ps 114:5-7 : 5 What is it, sea, that you flee? Jordan, that you turn back? 6 Mountains, why do you leap like rams, and hills, like lambs? 7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
  • Isa 11:15 : 15 The LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt. With a scorching wind, He will wave His hand over the River and divide it into seven streams, allowing people to cross in sandals.
  • Heb 11:29 : 29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land, but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.
  • Rev 16:12 : 12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 2:9-16
    8 verses
    92%

    9After they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, "Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?" Elisha replied, "Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit."

    10Elijah said, "You have asked for a difficult thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not."

    11As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.

    12Elisha saw this and cried out, 'My father, my father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!' And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.

    13Elisha picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

    14He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. 'Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?' he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.

    15The company of the prophets from Jericho saw him from a distance and said, 'The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha.' And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.

    16They said to him, 'Look, we have fifty able men among your servants. Let them go and search for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has picked him up and set him down on some mountain or in some valley.' But Elisha replied, 'Do not send them.'

  • 2 Kgs 2:4-7
    4 verses
    83%

    4Then Elijah said to him, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho." But Elisha replied, "As the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went to Jericho.

    5The sons of the prophets who were in Jericho approached Elisha and said to him, "Do you know that today the LORD is going to take your master away from you?" He answered, "Yes, I know it. Be quiet."

    6Then Elijah said to him, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan." But Elisha replied, "As the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So the two of them went on.

    7Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood at a distance, while the two of them stood by the Jordan.

  • 2 Kgs 2:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.

    2Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Bethel." But Elisha replied, "As the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went to Bethel.

  • 1 Kgs 18:46
    74%

    46The hand of the LORD came upon Elijah, and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

  • Exod 14:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind all night and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided.

    22The Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

  • 1 Kgs 18:35
    73%

    35The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.

  • Exod 14:16
    72%

    16As for you, lift up your staff, stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it, so the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

  • 1 Kgs 18:6
    72%

    6So they divided the land between them to search it. Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadiah went in another direction by himself.

  • 1 Kgs 19:19
    72%

    19Elijah left from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen, and he was with the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak over him.

  • 1 Kgs 18:40-41
    2 verses
    72%

    40Then Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal. Do not let any of them escape." So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.

    41Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.

  • 2 Kgs 2:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21Then he went out to the spring and threw the salt into it, saying, 'This is what the LORD says: I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive.'

    22And the water has remained pure to this day, according to the word Elisha had spoken.

  • Josh 3:15-17
    3 verses
    71%

    15Now as the priests who carried the ark came to the Jordan, and their feet touched the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the harvest season),

    16the water flowing down from upstream stood still. It rose up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam near Zarethan. Meanwhile, the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off, and the people crossed opposite Jericho.

    17The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed on dry ground until the entire nation had finished crossing the Jordan.

  • 1 Kgs 17:2
    71%

    2And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • Josh 4:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22You are to let your children know: 'Israel crossed the Jordan here on dry ground.'

    23For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea when He dried it up before us until we had crossed over.

  • 2 Kgs 6:2
    70%

    2Let us go to the Jordan, and let each of us take a log from there, and let us build a place for us to live there. And he said, "Go."

  • Neh 9:11
    70%

    11You divided the sea before them, and they passed through it on dry ground. But You cast their pursuers into the depths like a stone into mighty waters.

  • Josh 4:18
    70%

    18When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the middle of the Jordan, and their feet touched dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and flowed over all its banks as they had before.

  • Josh 3:13
    70%

    13When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—rest in the waters of the Jordan, the water flowing down from upstream will be cut off and will stand in a heap.

  • Ps 78:13
    69%

    13He divided the sea and let them pass through it; He made the waters stand like a wall.

  • Ps 114:3
    69%

    3The sea saw it and fled; the Jordan turned back.

  • 1 Kgs 18:32
    69%

    32With the stones, he built an altar in the name of the LORD and dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs of seed.

  • 1 Kgs 18:23
    69%

    23Let two bulls be given to us. Let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it into pieces, and lay it on the wood without setting fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood without setting fire to it.

  • Exod 14:29
    68%

    29But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground, with the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

  • 2 Kgs 3:11
    68%

    11But Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there no prophet of the LORD here, through whom we may inquire of the LORD?" One of the servants of the king of Israel answered, "Elisha, son of Shaphat, who used to pour water on the hands of Elijah, is here."

  • 1 Kgs 17:5
    68%

    5So he went and did as the word of the LORD directed him. He went and stayed by the Brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.

  • 1 Kgs 19:13
    68%

    13When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak, went out, and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then a voice came to him, saying, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?'

  • 2 Kgs 1:15
    68%

    15The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, 'Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.' So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.

  • Exod 14:26
    68%

    26Then the LORD said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians, their chariots, and their horsemen.'

  • 2 Kgs 13:15
    68%

    15Elisha said to him, 'Take a bow and arrows.' So he took a bow and arrows.

  • Judg 3:28
    68%

    28He said to them, 'Follow me, for the Lord has given your enemies, the Moabites, into your hands.' So they followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross over.