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2 Kings 2

2 Kings 2:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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}
took
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
his mantle
'addereth (Hebrew #155)
something ample (as a large vine, a wide dress); also the same as 145
KJV usage: garment, glory, goodly, mantle, robe.
Pronounce: ad-deh'-reth
Origin: feminine of 117
v, and wrapped it together
galam (Hebrew #1563)
to fold
KJV usage: wrap together.
Pronounce: gaw-lam'
Origin: a primitive root
, and smote
nakah (Hebrew #5221)
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), X go forward, X indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound.
Pronounce: naw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
the waters
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
, andw they were divided
chatsah (Hebrew #2673)
to cut or split in two; to halve
KJV usage: divide, X live out half, reach to the midst, participle
Pronounce: khaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2086))
hither and thither, so that they two
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
went over
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
on dry
charabah (Hebrew #2724)
a desert
KJV usage: dry (ground, land).
Pronounce: khaw-raw-baw'
Origin: feminine of 2720
ground.
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1 Kings 19:13,19• 13And it was so when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
 19{i}And he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yokes before him, and he with the twelfth{/i}; and Elijah passed by him and cast his mantle upon him. (1 Kings 19:13,19)
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2 Kings 2:14• 14And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters and said, Where is Jehovah God of Elijah? And when he also had smitten the waters they parted hither and thither; and Elisha went over. (2 Kings 2:14)
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Ex. 14:21• 21{i}And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah made the sea go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.{/i} (Ex. 14:21)
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Josh. 3:14‑17• 14And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;
 15and as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest),
 16The waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap, very far from the city Adam that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
 17And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan. (Josh. 3:14‑17)

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Ministry on This Verse

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his mantle.[Ten meloten autou,] his sheep skin, says the Septuagint; the skins of sheep being formerly worn by prophets as the simple insignia of their office: see Note on ch. 1:8.
1 Kings 19:13,19• 13And it was so when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
 19{i}And he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yokes before him, and he with the twelfth{/i}; and Elijah passed by him and cast his mantle upon him. (1 Kings 19:13,19)
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2 Kings 2:14• 14And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters and said, Where is Jehovah God of Elijah? And when he also had smitten the waters they parted hither and thither; and Elisha went over. (2 Kings 2:14)
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Ex. 14:21‑22• 21{i}And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah made the sea go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.{/i}
 22{i}And the children of Israel went through the midst of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.{/i} (Ex. 14:21‑22)
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Josh. 3:14‑17• 14And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;
 15and as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest),
 16The waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap, very far from the city Adam that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
 17And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan. (Josh. 3:14‑17)
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Psa. 114:5‑7• 5What ailed ([was] to) thee, thou (the) sea, that thou didst flee?{HR}Thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back?
 6Ye mountains, skipped ye like rams?{HR}Ye hills like lambs?
 7At the presence of the Lord tremble, O earth,{HR}At the presence of the God of Jacob, (Psa. 114:5‑7)
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Isa. 11:15• 15And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it into seven streams, and cause [men] to march over dryshod. (Isa. 11:15)
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Heb. 11:29• 29By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as through dry land, of which the Egyptians made trial and were swallowed up. (Heb. 11:29)
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Rev. 16:12• 12And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river, the Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings that are from {i}the{/i} east might be prepared. (Rev. 16:12)
• Elijah leaves Canaan, the land of promise and of Israel’s inheritance, with nothing more than his prophet’s mantle. Though he had visited Bethel, he did not stop there; he took away nothing of that which might have belonged to him as a man of God. So it was with Christ, too, for it was said of Him: “(He) shall have nothing” (Dan. 9:26). (“The Ascension of Elijah: 2 Kings 2:1-12” by H.L. Rossier)
• Elijah takes Elisha with him, leads him through the river of death in the power of the Spirit which death cannot resist, in the triumphant power of a life that it cannot swallow up. A mantle belonging to Elijah is able to do these things. Oh, what a blessed association for Elisha! (“Elisha, the Servant: 2 Kings 2-3” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither; and they two went over on dry ground.

W. Kelly Translation

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And Elijah took his mantle and wrapped it together and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither so that they two went over on dry ground.