20 myths
Three times the old prophet told him to stay behind. Elisha swore he would not leave, and then fire came down between their feet.
A woman who built a room for a prophet so he could rest, who had asked for nothing, now rode hard toward him with her dead son lying upstairs.
Elisha ben Abuya entered heaven and saw an angel seated on a throne. In heaven, no one sits. His mind drew one conclusion, and it cost him everything.
Two men sat inside a teaching so hard that a chariot of fire in the doorway meant nothing. The angel went back with the errand undone.
The word of God would not come to an angry prophet. Elisha called for a harpist, and when the strings played, heaven found a way in.
Elisha carried divine fire so concentrated his face burned lethal to look at. He traveled mountain to mountain, and one woman saw him coming.
Naaman tried to press silver into Elisha's hands. Elisha would not take it. Gehazi waited until the chariot was on the road, then he ran.
Elisha asked for a double portion of Elijah's spirit. Elijah called it a hard thing. Elisha watched and received it, and the count came out exactly right.
Elisha's most gifted disciple inscribed the Divine Name on golden calves and made them utter the words of Sinai. Nothing after that could be undone.
Samaria starved until a donkey's head cost eighty pieces of silver. Elisha named cheap flour for tomorrow. The officer who laughed died in the gate.
Gehazi asked the men in the street if a stick could raise a dead child. Then he laid Elisha's staff on the boy's face. Nothing moved.
Elisha was plowing behind oxen when Elijah threw a cloak over his shoulders and said nothing. He performed sixteen miracles, twice Elijah's eight.
She stripped the prophet's bed after every visit. The linen came away clean. That was how she knew, and she kept the evidence to herself.
Nebuzaradan found blood moving on the Temple floor. The priests said it was cattle. He killed cattle on it, and the old blood kept churning.
At the bush Moses hid his face. Years later he asked to see. God covered the cave with His hand and let him watch glory leave.
The ax head slipped and the Jordan kept it. The student had borrowed the blade and had no silver to quiet a lender.
The king of Israel wanted them dead and asked the prophet for permission. Elisha said no and set out bread and water for the men sent to bind him.
Three kings ran out of water and found Elisha. He promised a dry valley full of pools, then told them to fell every good tree in Moab without mercy.
A calf may not climb the altar until Shabbat has passed over it. The king will not see a newcomer before the queen does, and the future is already planted.
Rebekah sent the plate first. She knew the Presence would not sit on a sour heart, and Esau was still out in the field with his bow.
