- verses
- 53
- first named
- 1 Kings 19:16
- last named
- Luke 4:27
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Prophet
Description
Who was Elisha?
Elisha was a prophet in Israel who succeeded Elijah (1Ki.19.16). He was the son of Shaphat and was from Abel-meholah (1Ki.19.16,19). Elisha became Elijah's servant and disciple after Elijah threw his cloak around him while he was plowing (1Ki.19.19). When Elijah was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elisha took up his cloak and received a double portion of his spirit (2Ki.2.9-13). Elisha performed many miracles, including parting the Jordan River (2Ki.2.14), purifying water (2Ki.2.19-22), multiplying a widow's oil (2Ki.4.1-7), raising a Shunammite woman's son from the dead (2Ki.4.8-37), and healing Naaman's leprosy (2Ki.5). He also prophesied and gave counsel to kings, such as Jehoshaphat and Joram (2Ki.3). Elisha's ministry spanned the reigns of several kings of Israel, including Joram, Jehu, Jehoahaz, and Joash (2Ki.2-13). He died during the reign of King Joash (2Ki.13.14-20). Jesus mentioned Elisha as an example of a prophet who was sent to heal a foreigner, Naaman the Syrian (Luk.4.27).
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 17 are drawn. All 17 are listed below.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Elisha is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
53 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Kings (3), 2 Kings (49) and Luke (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 53, across 3 books. The name is written 59 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- 1 Kings 19Elisha left his oxen, fed the people with them, and followed and served Elijah.
- 2 Kings 2Elisha stayed with Elijah, received his fallen cloak, parted the Jordan, healed Jericho’s water with salt, and went on to Carmel and Samaria.
- 2 Kings 3Elisha rebuked the king of Israel, summoned a harpist, and spoke of water and victory while the music played.
- 2 Kings 4Elisha tells a widow how to fill her jars, promises a son, confronts a child’s death, and makes both stew and bread exceed expectation.
- 2 Kings 5Elisha sent Naaman to wash in the Jordan, refused his gift, and exposed Gehazi’s deceit.
- 2 Kings 6Elisha made iron float, disclosed the Aramean plans, led a blinded army into Samaria, and stood accused during the famine.
- 2 Kings 7Elisha announced the next day’s prices and foretold the officer’s seeing without eating.
- 2 Kings 8Elisha sent the woman and her household away from the famine, received Hazael at Damascus, and wept over what Hazael would do.
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