The Bible In Paintings: ELISHA'S MANY, MANY MIRACLES, Part 1

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2^nd KINGS
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Elisha picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. Then he took the cloak that had fallen from him and struck the water with it. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.

The company of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, “The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha.”

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"Elisha Slaps the Water with His Cloak"

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JEAN-BAPTISTE DESPAX
"Elisha Dividing the Waters of Jordan with Elijah's Mantle"

The men of the city said to Elisha, “Look, our lord, this town is well situated, as you can see, but the water is bad and the land is unproductive.”

“Bring me a new bowl,” he said, “and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.

Then he went out to the spring and threw the salt into it, saying, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive.’ ” And the water has remained wholesome to this day, according to the word Elisha had spoken.

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JAN LUYKEN
"Elisha Heals the Water"

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PIETRO LORENZETTI
"Elisha’s Well"

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. “Go on up, you baldhead!” they said. “Go on up, you baldhead!” He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths. And he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria.

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"Elisha Curses Rude Boys"

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WILLEM VAN DEN BUNDEL
"The Prophet Elisha Curses the Children Who Mocked Him"

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NICOLAS FONTAINE
"Boys Mock Elisha "

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MARTIN LUTHER
"Boys Mock Elisha"

The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the LORD. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”

Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?”

“Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a little oil.”

Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”

She left him and afterward shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.”

But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”

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NICOLAS FONTAINE
"Elisha Multiplies the Widow's Oil"

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"Elisha Multiplies the Widow's Oil"

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MICHOEL MUCHNIK
"Elisha's Blessing"

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E L I J A H
ELIJAH'S CHARIOT OF FIRE, Part 1
ELIJAH'S CHARIOT OF FIRE, Part 2
E L I S H A
ELISHA'S MANY, MANY MIRACLES, Part 1
ELISHA'S MANY, MANY MIRACLES, Part 2
ELISHA'S MANY, MANY MIRACLES, Part 3
ELISHA'S MANY, MANY MIRACLES, Part 4

[etabeta]

The story of Elisha and the boys always bored me. I have read many interpretations about the event and now it is a lot more clear in my mind. Among those I read, this made more sense to me than some others.

#10 Bundel and the illustrations of the woman with the oil jar are favorites.

https://www.1517.org/articles/the-misunderstood-story-of-bear-attacks-a-bald-prophet-and-forty-two-mouthy-kids

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I second your appreciation of that explanation, that when translated properly we see that the bears attacked profane young priests, not little boys.

[InkStone]

Good morning Dan, and joyous new week to all who attend today.
Good choices Dan; and we acknowledge how our Father wants to fill each of us as well. This ministry is part of that blessing!

[left that other site]

Good Morning, Dan. :-)

[InkStone]

Great Link : thank you for posting it- really explains this Bible story.

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Happy Monday, Leon!

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Same to ya, Mary-Lou!

[ChessExpert]

“Go, sell the oil and pay your debts.”

Good advice for America. Admittedly, out of context.

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Ah, a present-day on-point application. Well-done. Checkmate!

Are you following the Candidates' Tournament? Nepo is itching for another crack at Magnus.

[ChessExpert]

“Are you following the Candidates’ Tournament?”

Not closely.

“Nepo is itching for another crack at Magnus.”

Probably. However, I’m not sure he’ll get it. Magnus said that he’s faced (defeated) the prior generation, and the current generation, and would continue to play if he faced the next generation. But who knows?

I watched an old series on the senses. A master chef had far more taste buds on his tongue than normal. Cause or effect? Rod Laver had a very large right forearm. I wonder if the greatest chess players have more brain cells for spatial relations. I briefly read about a 12-year-old grandmaster. It is hard not to believe that he has a gift. We may all be blank slates at birth, just not the same blank slate.

[AnAmericanMother]

OK, I'm cracking up here.

Illustration # 9 is actually a cartoon (it looks like one of the cartoonists for Puck - and it IS, just found it. The style's pretty unmistakeable.)

The caption is: "Elisha Roosevelt sicketh the bears upon the bad boys of Wall Street."

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Glad you looked for and found that. I was curious about it.

Elisha Roosevelt

LOL. There are many nicknames for him.

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would continue to play if he faced the next generation

Meaning Firouja, who is in last place.

Seems to me that Moriarty was interested in Sherlock's cranium.

Major league baseball players' sons become stars themselves wildly disproportionally to statistical expectation: Griffey, Guerrero, Biggio, Boones, Tatis.... Where are the offspring of Capablanca and Morphy and Fischer?

[spankalib]

Hikaru Nakamura won it. I saw a pic of Rod Laver - and it was his left forearm that looked like a gorilla compared to the right. I recently looked for it, but couldn't find it, but I do remember it (I played tennis in HS)...

I think there's something to the assertion that there are *differences* btwn normal humans and master chefs for example (& a good example it is!), or brilliant chess players on the other hand...

Their way of collating and remembering information exists on another level! I saw a video of Magnus playing @ 12 experts all at once...except Magnus was facing away! from all the players - keeping 12 games only in his mind.

I remember feeling the same amount of awe for Isaac Newton when I took *the* calculus.

Certain Genius is beyond my ability to grasp!

The brain wiring that makes genius also flirts pretty closely in many cases with *flawed wiring* as well. Flawed genius is often a co-morbidity in fact. I present for your examination 1. Bobby Fischer and 2. Paul Morphy, and in another field, Van Gogh.

National Geo did a documentary on Susan Polgar titled: "My Brilliant Brain" Give it a look!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wzs33wvr9E

In short, they did a fMRI (functional MRI) while she solved chess problems, and found she did a lot of *processing* in the fusiform, or facial recognition area of her brain. Very interesting!

Although she'd mop me all over the board, it's also interesting that there have been no female world champions.

[ChessExpert]

Thanks for the link.

The nature/nurture thing can certainly get confusing. The three Polgar sisters are exceptionally strong chess players. It could be genes. Then again, they had the same coach, their father, since childhood. They were also able to play exceptionally strong competition on a regular basis - each other.

Women have not performed as well as men at chess. It could be a matter of innate differences between the sexes. Then again maybe not.

The vast majority of chess players are male. That implies more average players, more below and above average players. In terms of a frequency distribution, the right tail of stronger and stronger players would be expected to shift farther to the right. That means the best male would likely be stronger that the best female. Likewise, the least good male player would probably lose to the least good female player.

When it comes to physical sports, innate differences between the sexes seem undeniable to me. Advantages in weight, height, muscle-mass are objective and important. Every so often ability compensates. I believe a few boxers have competed in a higher weight class - but only a few. Transgender “women” seem to do very well in women’s sports. I’ve yet to hear of a transgender “man” doing well in men’s sports.

[nicollo]

Elisha Roosevelt Here are a couple more biblical TR (moderns don't realize these were made in ridicule not adoration):







My favorite, which was published in the NYT in 1911/12, and which I can't seem to find in my files, is of TR coming back from the dead as Lazarus to run for president in 1912.

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Thanks to both of you. I had been ignorant of these and posted the cartoon above obliviously.

Some wag at Puck knew Scripture and could apply it.

[AnAmericanMother]

Puck's business was skewering people . . . they were good at it.

Of course, people were much more Biblically literate in those days!