For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.

After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.

Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: …

But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and …

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’” So Elijah departed.

And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.

“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

“Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.

Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”

Please run out now to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’” …

Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”

So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not …

And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” …

… face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”

When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.

So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.

… bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, …

Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the …

Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”

She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.

Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.

… speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait …

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.