The Bible In Paintings: ELISHA'S MANY, MANY MIRACLES, Part 4

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Bible In Paintings 2
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE

2^nd KINGS
CHAPTERS 6-7, 13

Now the king of Aram was at war with Israel. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard.

This enraged the king of Aram. He summoned his officers and demanded of them, “Will you not tell me which of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”

Said one of his officers, “Elisha tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”

“Go, find out where he is,” the king ordered, “so I can send men and capture him.” The report came back: “He is in Dothan.” Then he sent horses and chariots and a strong force there. They went by night and surrounded the city.

When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. “Oh, my lord, what shall we do?” the servant asked.

“Don’t be afraid,” the prophet answered. “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

And Elisha prayed, “O LORD, open his eyes so he may see.” Then the LORD opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Strike these people with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked.

Elisha told them, “Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are looking for.” And he led them to Samaria.

After they entered the city, Elisha said, “LORD, open the eyes of these men so they can see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes and they looked, and there they were, inside Samaria. So the bands from Aram stopped raiding Israel’s territory.

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"Elisha and the Burning Chariots"

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Jesus said, “Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?” Matthew 26:52-53

Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria. There was a great famine in the city.

The king said, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha remains on his shoulders today!”

Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD. This is what the LORD says: About this time tomorrow, a seah of flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.”

The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?”

“You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it!”

Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? Let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”

At dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Arameans. When they reached the edge of the camp, not a man was there, for the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to attack us!” So they got up and fled in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.

The men who had leprosy said to each other, “Let’s go at once and report this to the royal palace.”

So they went and called out to the city gatekeepers and told them. Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. So a seah of flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, as the LORD had said.

Now the king had put the officer on whose arm he leaned in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to his house.

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"The Four Lepers Find the Camp"

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"Four Lepers Bring the News
to the Guards at the Gate of Samaria"

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"Lepers Visit Abandoned Syrian Camp"

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"Lepers in Syria’s Camp"

Now Elisha was suffering from the illness from which he died. Jehoash king of Israel went down to see him and wept over him. “My father! My father!” he cried. “The chariots and horsemen of Israel!”

Elisha said, “Get a bow and some arrows,” and he did so. “Take the bow in your hands,” he said to the king of Israel. When he had taken it, Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands.

“Open the east window,” he said, and he opened it. “Shoot!” Elisha said, and he shot. “The LORD ’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram!” Elisha declared. “You will completely destroy the Arameans at Aphek.”

Then he said, “Take the arrows,” and the king took them. Elisha told him, “Strike the ground.” He struck it three times and stopped. The man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram and completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only three times.”

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"Elisha with Joash with Arrow"

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"Elisha and the Bow"

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"Joash Shooting Arrows from a Window
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"Joash Shooting the Arrow"

Elisha died and was buried.

Now Moabite raiders used to enter the country every spring. Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet.

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"The Dead Man Was Restored to Life"

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WASHINGTON ALLSTON
"The Dead Man Restored to Life by Touching
the Bones of the Prophet Elisha"

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"The Dead Man, Who Was Thrown
in Elisha's Tomb, Comes back to Life"

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6 SCENES:
“ELISHA RECEIVES ELIJAH'S MANTLE”
“WHERE IS THE LORD GOD OF ELIJAH?”
“THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS FALL DOWN BEFORE ELISHA”
“ELISHA HEALS THE BITTER WATERS”
“ELISHA RAISES THE SHUNEMITE'S SON”
“WENT NOT MINE HEART WITH THEE?”

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[Red Badger]

Nope, I was just being sarcastic, as usual......................

[Hebrews 11:6]

I knew that, but two can play, can’t they?

[Red Badger]

Of course, the more the merrier!

I hope there are a lot of comics in Heaven..............................

[Hebrews 11:6]

There's a movie that Jane Fonda used to make Ted Turner broadcast every Easter, called The Day Christ Died (available on YouTube). Its first scene culminates in Jesus playing a great joke on Peter.

So, there's at least one comic in heaven.