BRAGADAYJAH 1097

Death of Elisha.

Now in the course of time, Elisha fell ill and was on his death bed. And Joash the king of Israel went down to him and wept over his face and said, “O my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof. And Elisha said unto him. “Take bows and arrows.”  And he took bows and arrows. And Elisha told him to put his hand upon the bow and Joash did so; and Elisha put his hand upon the king’s hand and told him to open the window eastward, and he opened it. And Elisha said shoot. And he shot. And Elisha told him. “The arrow of the Lord’s deliverance; for you shall smite the Syrians at Aphek until you have consumed them. And Elisha told Joash to take the arrows and he took them. And Elisha told him to smite upon the ground. And the king of Israel smote upon the ground threw times and stopped. And Elisha was angry with him and told him that he should have smitten the ground five or six times as indicating he would have smitten Syria utterly; but since he only smote the ground three times that meant that he would not smite Syria until they were completely destroyed.  So Elisha died and was buried. And after that bands of Moabites began to invade the land of Israel at the beginning of the next year.

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