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1. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Elisha
   God his salvation, the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah, who
   became the attendant and disciple of Elijah (1 Kings 19:16-19).
   His name first occurs in the command given to Elijah to anoint
   him as his successor (1 Kings 19:16). This was the only one of
   the three commands then given to Elijah which he accomplished.
   On his way from Sinai to Damascus he found Elisha at his native
   place engaged in the labours of the field, ploughing with twelve
   yoke of oxen. He went over to him, threw over his shoulders his
   rough mantle, and at once adopted him as a son, and invested him
   with the prophetical office (comp. Luke 9:61, 62). Elisha
   accepted the call thus given (about four years before the death
   of Ahab), and for some seven or eight years became the close
   attendant on Elijah till he was parted from him and taken up
   into heaven. During all these years we hear nothing of Elisha
   except in connection with the closing scenes of Elijah's life.
   After Elijah, Elisha was accepted as the leader of the sons of
   the prophets, and became noted in Israel. He possessed,
   according to his own request, "a double portion" of Elijah's
   spirit (2 Kings 2:9); and for the long period of about sixty
   years (B.C. 892-832) held the office of "prophet in Israel" (2
   Kings 5:8).
   
     After Elijah's departure, Elisha returned to Jericho, and
   there healed the spring of water by casting salt into it (2
   Kings 2:21). We next find him at Bethel (2:23), where, with the
   sternness of his master, he cursed the youths who came out and
   scoffed at him as a prophet of God: "Go up, thou bald head." The
   judgment at once took effect, and God terribly visited the
   dishonour done to his prophet as dishonour done to himself. We
   next read of his predicting a fall of rain when the army of
   Jehoram was faint from thirst (2 Kings 3:9-20); of the
   multiplying of the poor widow's cruse of oil (4:1-7); the
   miracle of restoring to life the son of the woman of Shunem
   (4:18-37); the multiplication of the twenty loaves of new barley
   into a sufficient supply for an hundred men (4:42-44); of the
   cure of Naaman the Syrian of his leprosy (5:1-27); of the
   punishment of Gehazi for his falsehood and his covetousness; of
   the recovery of the axe lost in the waters of the Jordan
   (6:1-7); of the miracle at Dothan, half-way on the road between
   Samaria and Jezreel; of the siege of Samaria by the king of
   Syria, and of the terrible sufferings of the people in
   connection with it, and Elisha's prophecy as to the relief that
   would come (2 Kings 6:24-7:2).
   
     We then find Elisha at Damascus, to carry out the command
   given to his master to anoint Hazael king over Syria (2 Kings
   8:7-15); thereafter he directs one of the sons of the prophets
   to anoint Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Israel, instead
   of Ahab. Thus the three commands given to Elijah (9:1-10) were
   at length carried out.
   
     We do not again read of him till we find him on his death-bed
   in his own house (2 Kings 13:14-19). Joash, the grandson of
   Jehu, comes to mourn over his approaching departure, and utters
   the same words as those of Elisha when Elijah was taken away:
   "My father, my father! the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen
   thereof."
   
     Afterwards when a dead body is laid in Elisha's grave a year
   after his burial, no sooner does it touch the hallowed remains
   than the man "revived, and stood up on his feet" (2 Kings
   13:20-21).
   

2. Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)
Elisha, salvation of God


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