{"id":63295,"date":"2019-09-22T17:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T14:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=63295"},"modified":"2023-04-16T09:54:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T06:54:59","slug":"elijah-reprised-and-surpassed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/elijah-reprised-and-surpassed\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Reprised And Surpassed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[858,931,471,506],"acf":{"old_id":"63295","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"313","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Elisha has clearly mastered the tricks of the trade","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Elijah was about to part company from Elisha, he granted his disciple a wish: \u201c\u201cTell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?\u201d Elisha replied: \u201cLet a double portion of your spirit pass on to me\u201d (2 Kings 2:9). If we are not inclined to view this as an act of hubris, it most likely signified that Elisha regarded himself as being only half the man of God that Elijah was; therefore, he would need twice his master\u2019s spirit in order to accomplish just as much. In our chapter, we find Elisha reprising some of Elijah\u2019s activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the chapter in which we were first introduced to Elijah, he performed a miracle to provide food for a woman of Tzarfat. In the words of his prophetic message, \u201cThe jar of flour shall not give out and the jug of oil shall not fail until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the ground\u201d (1 Kings 17:14). In our chapter (v. 3 ff.), we find Elisha miraculously providing sustenance for the widow of a prophet-in-training.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even more striking, perhaps, was Elisha\u2019s duplication of his master\u2019s successful resuscitation of an apparently dead child. Elijah, in that same chapter, brought back to life the son of the woman of Tzarfat after \u201che had no breath left in him\u201d (1 Kings 17:17), and, in our chapter, Elisha breathed life back into the son of the Shunamite woman with whom he was boarding \u201cand the boy opened his eyes\u201d (v.35).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is significant that in each of the two cases cited here the prophet first uttered a prayer to God before actually performing artificial respiration. Indeed, the failure of Gehazi, Elisha\u2019s manservant, to succeed in his attempt to revive the child would argue that more was involved here than just the exercise of CPR.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, towards the end of the chapter, Elisha rescued a stew from poisonous gourds by mixing in flour (reminiscent of Moses saving the water at Marah by tossing in a branch, cf. 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