2 Kings 6:10

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So the king of Israel sent a message to the place the prophet had pointed out, warning it to be on its guard. This happened on several occasions.

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  • Exod 9:20-21 : 20 Those of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the LORD’s message hurried to bring their servants and livestock into the houses, 21 but those who did not take the LORD’s message seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.
  • 1 Kgs 20:15 : 15 So Ahab assembled the 232 servants of the district governors. After that he assembled all the Israelite army, numbering 7,000.
  • 2 Kgs 2:12 : 12 While Elisha was watching, he was crying out,“My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!” Then he could no longer see him. He grabbed his clothes and tore them in two.
  • 2 Kgs 5:14 : 14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. His skin became as smooth as a young child’s and he was healed.
  • 2 Kgs 13:14 : 14 Elisha 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!”
  • 2 Chr 20:20 : 20 Early the next morning they marched out to the wilderness of Tekoa. When they were ready to march, Jehoshaphat stood up and said:“Listen to me, you people of Judah and residents of Jerusalem! Trust in the LORD your God and you will be safe! Trust in the message of his prophets and you will win.”
  • Prov 27:12 : 12 A shrewd person saw danger–he hid himself; the naive passed right on by– they had to pay for it.
  • Ezek 3:18-21 : 18 When I say to the wicked,“You will certainly die,” and you do not warn him– you do not speak out to warn the wicked to turn from his wicked lifestyle so that he may live– that wicked person will die for his iniquity, but I will hold you accountable for his death. 19 But as for you, if you warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wicked deed and from his wicked lifestyle, he will die for his iniquity but you will have saved your own life. 20 “When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I set an obstacle before him, he will die. If you have not warned him, he will die for his sin. The righteous deeds he performed will not be considered, but I will hold you accountable for his death. 21 However, if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he will certainly live because he was warned, and you will have saved your own life.”
  • Amos 7:1-6 : 1 Symbolic Visions of Judgment The Sovereign LORD showed me this: I saw him making locusts just as the crops planted late were beginning to sprout.(The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest.) 2 When they had completely consumed the earth’s vegetation, I said,“Sovereign LORD, forgive Israel! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!” 3 The LORD decided not to do this.“It will not happen,” the LORD said. 4 The Sovereign LORD showed me this: I saw the Sovereign LORD summoning a shower of fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the fields. 5 I said,“Sovereign LORD, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!” 6 The LORD decided not to do this. The Sovereign LORD said,“This will not happen either.”
  • Matt 2:12 : 12 After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back by another route to their own country.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  • Matt 24:15-17 : 15 The Abomination of Desolation“So when you see the abomination of desolation– spoken about by Daniel the prophet– standing in the holy place”(let the reader understand), 16 “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains. 17 The one on the roof must not come down to take anything out of his house,
  • Acts 27:24 : 24 and said,‘Do not be afraid, Paul! You must stand before Caesar, and God has graciously granted you the safety of all who are sailing with you.’
  • Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

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    8Elisha Defeats an Army Now the king of Syria was at war with Israel. He consulted his advisers, who said,“Invade at such and such a place.”

    9But the prophet sent this message to the king of Israel,“Make sure you don’t pass through this place because Syria is invading there.”

  • 2 Kgs 6:11-15
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    11This made the king of Syria upset. So he summoned his advisers and said to them,“One of us must be helping the king of Israel.”

    12One of his advisers said,“No, my master, O king. The prophet Elisha who lives in Israel keeps telling the king of Israel the things you say in your bedroom.”

    13The king ordered,“Go, find out where he is, so I can send some men to capture him.” The king was told,“He is in Dothan.”

    14So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army. They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.

    15The prophet’s attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha,“Oh no, my master! What will we do?”

  • 2 Chr 25:7
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    7But a prophet visited him and said:“O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites.

  • 2 Chr 18:17
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    17The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat,“Didn’t I tell you he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster?”

  • 1 Kgs 22:18
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    18The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat,“Didn’t I tell you he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster?”

  • 2 Kgs 1:6
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  • 1 Kgs 20:39-40
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    40Well, it just so happened that while your servant was doing this and that, he disappeared.” The king of Israel said to him,“Your punishment is already determined by your own testimony.”

  • 1 Kgs 13:8-11
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    8But the prophet said to the king,“Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you. I am not allowed to eat food or drink water in this place.

    9For this is how I was commanded in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water. And do not return by the way you came.’”

    10So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.

    11Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. When his sons came home, they told him everything the prophet had done in Bethel that day. And they told their father all the words that he had spoken to the king.

  • 2 Chr 18:30
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  • 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.”

  • 1 Kgs 20:9
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    9So he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad,“Say this to my master, the king,‘I will give you everything you demanded at first from your servant, but I am unable to agree to this latest demand.’” So the messengers went back and gave their report.

  • 2 Chr 18:32
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    32When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:6
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  • 1 Kgs 13:21
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    21So he cried out to the prophet who had come from Judah,“This is what the LORD has said,‘You have rebelled against the LORD’s instruction and have not obeyed the command the LORD your God gave you.

  • 2 Kgs 2:18
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    18When they came back, Elisha was staying in Jericho. He said to them,“Didn’t I tell you,‘Don’t go’?”

  • 2 Kgs 13:19
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    19The prophet got angry at him and said,“If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! But now, you will defeat Syria only three times.”

  • 2 Kgs 1:11
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    11The king sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him,“Prophet, this is what the king says,‘Come down at once!’”

  • 2 Kgs 5:6
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    6He brought the letter to the king of Israel. It read:“This is a letter of introduction for my servant Naaman, whom I have sent to be cured of his skin disease.”

  • 2 Kgs 8:7
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  • 1 Kgs 20:28
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    28The prophet visited the king of Israel and said,“This is what the LORD has said:‘Because the Syrians said,“The LORD is a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys,” I will deliver this entire huge army into to your control. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 6:31-32
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    31Then he said,“May God judge me severely if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!”

    32Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. The king sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the leaders,“Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.”

  • 2 Kgs 6:19
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    19Then Elisha said to them,“This is not the right road or city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you’re looking for.” He led them to Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 22:33
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    33When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

  • 2 Kgs 1:9
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    9The king sent a captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. The captain went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. He told him,“Prophet, the king says,‘Come down!’”

  • 2 Kgs 13:5
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    5The LORD provided a deliverer for Israel and they were freed from Syria’s power. The Israelites once more lived in security.

  • 2 Kgs 6:26
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    26While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him,“Help us, my master, O king!”

  • 2 Kgs 3:10
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    10The king of Israel said,“Oh no! Certainly the LORD has summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to the king of Moab!”

  • 1 Kgs 18:10
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    10As certainly as the LORD your God lives, my master has sent to every nation and kingdom in an effort to find you. When they say,‘He’s not here,’ he makes them swear an oath that they could not find you.

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    13Elisha said to the king of Israel,“Why are you here? Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him,“No, for the LORD is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”

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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.’”

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    12The king got up in the night and said to his advisers,“I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking,‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”

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    4Naaman went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said.

  • 2 Kgs 1:13
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    13The king sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy,“Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

  • 1 Kgs 22:31
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    31Now the king of Syria had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders,“Do not fight common soldiers or high-ranking officers; fight only the king of Israel.”

  • 1 Kgs 20:11
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    11The king of Israel replied,“Tell him the one who puts on his battle gear should not boast like one who is taking it off.”

  • 2 Chr 30:6
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    6Messengers delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. This royal edict read:“O Israelites, return to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria.

  • 2 Kgs 5:15
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    15He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman came and stood before him. He said,“For sure I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.”

  • 2 Kgs 6:23
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    23So 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.