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2 Kings 2

2 Kings 2:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And it came to pass, as they still
halak (Hebrew #1980)
a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, + be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, + tale-bearer, + travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-)faring man, X be weak, whirl.
Pronounce: haw-lak'
Origin: akin to 3212
went on
halak (Hebrew #1980)
a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, + be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, + tale-bearer, + travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-)faring man, X be weak, whirl.
Pronounce: haw-lak'
Origin: akin to 3212
, and talked
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
, that, behold, there appeared a chariot
rekeb (Hebrew #7393)
a vehicle; by implication, a team; by extension, cavalry; by analogy a rider, i.e. the upper millstone
KJV usage: chariot, (upper) millstone, multitude (from the margin), wagon.
Pronounce: reh'-keb
Origin: from 7392
b of fire
'esh (Hebrew #784)
fire (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
Pronounce: aysh
Origin: a primitive word
, and horses
cuwc (Hebrew #5483)
from an unused root meaning to skip (properly, for joy); a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight)
KJV usage: crane, horse((-back, -hoof)). Compare 6571.
Pronounce: soos
Origin: or cuc {soos}
of fire
'esh (Hebrew #784)
fire (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
Pronounce: aysh
Origin: a primitive word
, and parted
parad (Hebrew #6504)
to break through, i.e. spread or separate (oneself)
KJV usage: disperse, divide, be out of joint, part, scatter (abroad), separate (self), sever self, stretch, sunder.
Pronounce: paw-rad'
Origin: a primitive root
them both
shnayim (Hebrew #8147)
feminine shttayim {shet-tah'-yim}; two; also (as ordinal) twofold
KJV usage: both, couple, double, second, twain, + twelfth, + twelve, + twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
Pronounce: shen-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 8145
asunder
beyn (Hebrew #996)
properly, the constructive form of an otherwise unused noun from 995; a distinction; but used only as a prep, between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
KJV usage: among, asunder, at, between (-twixt...and), + from (the widest), X in, out of, whether (it be...or), within.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: (sometimes in the plural masculine or feminine)
; and Elijah
'Eliyah (Hebrew #452)
from 410 and 3050; God of Jehovah; Elijah, the name of the famous prophet and of two other Israelites
KJV usage: Elijah, Eliah.
Pronounce: ay-lee-yaw'
Origin: or prolonged tEliyahuw {ay-lee-yaw'-hoo}
went up
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
by a whirlwind
ca`ar (Hebrew #5591)
from 5590; a hurricane
KJV usage: storm(-y), tempest, whirlwind.
Pronounce: sah'-ar
Origin: or (feminine) ctarah {seh-aw-raw'}
into heaven
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
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2 Kings 6:17• 17And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. (2 Kings 6:17)
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Psa. 104:4• 4Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire: (Psa. 104:4)

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Chariot,
Elijah,
Fire,
Heaven,
Horse,
Whirlwind

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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2 Kings 6:17• 17And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. (2 Kings 6:17)
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Psa. 68:17• 17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place. (Psa. 68:17)
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Psa. 104:3‑4• 3Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
 4Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire: (Psa. 104:3‑4)
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Ezek. 1:4‑28• 4And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
 5Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
 6And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
 7And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass.
 8And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
 9Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
 10As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
 11Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
 12And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
 13As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
 14And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
 15Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
 16The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the color of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
 17When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
 18As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
 19And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
 20Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
 21When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
 22And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the color of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
 23And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
 24And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
 25And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
 26And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
 27And I saw as the color of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
 28As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. (Ezek. 1:4‑28)
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Ezek. 10:9‑22• 9And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the color of a beryl stone.
 10And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
 11When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.
 12And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.
 13As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.
 14And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
 15And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
 16And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.
 17When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
 18Then the glory of the Lord departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
 19And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
 20This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.
 21Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
 22And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward. (Ezek. 10:9‑22)
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Hab. 3:8• 8Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation? (Hab. 3:8)
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Zech. 3:8• 8Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH. (Zech. 3:8)
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Zech. 6:1‑8• 1And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
 2In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
 3And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.
 4Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
 5And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
 6The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.
 7And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
 8Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country. (Zech. 6:1‑8)
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Heb. 1:14• 14Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? (Heb. 1:14)
by a whirlwind.
2 Kings 2:1• 1And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. (2 Kings 2:1)
into heaven.
Mark 16:19• 19So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. (Mark 16:19)
• The history of Elijah and of Elisha bears uniquely upon Israel. Yet nevertheless, the rapture of Elijah, as that of Enoch, speaks to us in type of the rapture of the saints, of which the Church forms a part. One might say that the rapture is mysteriously concealed in Elijah’s ascension, whereas it is portrayed in that of Enoch. (“Elijah, a Type of Christ: 2 Kings 2:2-6” by H.L. Rossier)
• This chariot and these horses of fire were angels (2 Kings 6:17), corresponding in their appearance to Elijah’s character who, as a prophet of the law, had acted by the fire of judgment in the midst of Israel. (“Elisha, the Servant: 2 Kings 2-3” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And it came to pass as they went on, and talked, that behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire; and they parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into the heavens.