2 Kings 13:20

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Elisha died and was buried. Moabite raiding parties invaded the land at the beginning of the year.

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  • 2 Kgs 24:2 : 2 The LORD sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, just as in the LORD’s message that he had announced through his servants the prophets.
  • 2 Kgs 3:7 : 7 He sent this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah:“The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you fight with me against Moab?” Jehoshaphat replied,“I will join you in the campaign; my army and horses are at your disposal.”
  • 2 Kgs 3:24-27 : 24 When they approached the Israelite camp, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who then ran from them. The Israelites thoroughly defeated Moab. 25 They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it. 26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack the king of Edom, but they failed. 27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel, so they broke off the attack and returned to their homeland.
  • 2 Kgs 5:2 : 2 Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman’s wife.
  • 2 Kgs 6:23 : 23 So he threw a big banquet for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.
  • 2 Chr 24:16 : 16 He was buried in the City of David with the kings, because he had accomplished good in Israel and for God and his temple.
  • Acts 8:2 : 2 Some devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.
  • Judg 3:12 : 12 Deceit, Assassination, and Deliverance The Israelites again did evil in the LORD’s sight. The LORD gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel because they had done evil in the LORD’s sight.
  • Judg 6:3-6 : 3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them. 4 They invaded the land and devoured its crops all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, and they took away the sheep, oxen, and donkeys. 5 When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land. 6 Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help.
  • 2 Kgs 3:5 : 5 When Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

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    21One day some men were burying a man when they spotted a raiding party. So they threw the dead man into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man came to life and stood on his feet.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
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    37So the king died and was taken to Samaria, where they buried him.

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    1¶ Elijah Confronts the King and His Commanders After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 3:5
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    5When Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 13:29-32
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    29The old prophet picked up the prophet’s body, put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him.

    30He put the body into his own tomb, and they mourned over him, saying,“Ah, my brother!”

    31After he buried him, he said to his sons,“When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,

    32because the message that he announced as the LORD’s message against the altar in Bethel and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north will certainly be fulfilled.”

  • 2 Kgs 13:13-15
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    13Joash passed away and Jeroboam succeeded him on the throne. Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

    14Elisha Makes One Final Prophecy Now Elisha had a terminal illness. King Joash of Israel went down to visit him. He wept before him and said,“My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!”

    15Elisha told him,“Take a bow and some arrows,” and he did so.

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    16Elijah said to the king,“This is what the LORD has said,‘You sent messengers to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. Is it because there is no God in Israel from whom you can seek a message? Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.’”

    17And he did die in keeping with the LORD’s message that he had spoken through Elijah. In the second year of the reign of King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah, Ahaziah’s brother Jehoram replaced him as king of Israel, because he had no son.

  • 2 Kgs 4:32
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    32When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the child lying dead on his bed.

  • 2 Kgs 2:13
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    13He picked up Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him, and went back and stood on the shore of the Jordan.

  • 1 Kgs 20:22
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    22The Lord Gives Israel Another Victory The prophet visited the king of Israel and instructed him,“Go, fortify your defenses. Determine what you must do, for in the spring the king of Syria will attack you.”

  • 2 Kgs 13:9
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    9Jehoahaz passed away and was buried in Samaria. His son Joash replaced him as king.

  • 2 Kgs 3:23-24
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    23The Moabites said,“It’s blood! The kings must have fought one another! The soldiers have struck one another down! Now, Moab, seize the plunder!”

    24When they approached the Israelite camp, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who then ran from them. The Israelites thoroughly defeated Moab.

  • 2 Kgs 2:15
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    15When the members of the prophetic guild in Jericho, who were standing at a distance, saw him do this, they said,“The spirit that energized Elijah rests upon Elisha.” They went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.

  • 2 Kgs 3:21
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    21Now all Moab had heard that the kings were attacking, so everyone old enough to fight was mustered and placed at the border.

  • 2 Kgs 8:15
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    15The next day Hazael took a piece of cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over Ben Hadad’s face until he died. Then Hazael replaced him as king.

  • 1 Kgs 14:12
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    12“As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.

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    23At the beginning of the year the Syrian army attacked Joash and invaded Judah and Jerusalem. They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus.

  • 2 Kgs 7:20
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    20This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.

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    30Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

  • 1 Kgs 14:18
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    18All Israel buried him and mourned for him, in keeping with the LORD’s message that he had spoken through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17
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    17After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.

  • Isa 16:14
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    14Now the LORD makes this announcement:“Within exactly three years Moab’s splendor will disappear, along with all her many people; there will be just a few, insignificant survivors left.”

  • 2 Kgs 8:10
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    10Elisha said to him,“Go and tell him,‘You will surely recover,’ but the LORD has revealed to me that he will surely die.”

  • Isa 15:1
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    17Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him.

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  • 2 Kgs 3:13
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  • 2 Chr 20:1
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    1The Lord Gives Jehoshaphat Military Success Later the Moabites and Ammonites, along with some of the Meunites, attacked Jehoshaphat.

  • 2 Kgs 3:26
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    26When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack the king of Edom, but they failed.

  • 2 Kgs 8:7
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    5So Moses, the servant of the LORD, died there in the land of Moab as the LORD had said.

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  • 2 Kgs 4:20
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    20So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.

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    22You went back. You ate food. And you drank water in the place of which he had said to you,“Eat no food. Drink no water.” Therefore your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’”

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    24When King Hazael of Syria died, his son Ben Hadad replaced him as king.