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Deuteronomy 33:1

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This is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, pronounced upon the Israelites before he died.

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1 He said: "The LORD came from Sinai and dawned on his people from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and advanced from Meribath-kadesh, While at his right hand a fire blazed forth and his wrath devastated the nations.

1. [2-5,26-29] These verses seem to form an independent hymn describing, in the form of a theophany, the conquest of Canaan. The first section of this hymn (Deut 33:2-5) serves here as an introduction to the various "blessings"; the second section (Deut 33:26-29), as their conclusion.

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Joshua 14:6

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Thus, in apportioning the land, did the Israelites carry out the instructions of the LORD to Moses.

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When the Judahites came up to Joshua in Gilgal, the Kenizzite Caleb, son of Jephunneh, said to him: "You know what the LORD said to the man of God, Moses, about you and me in Kadesh-barnea.

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I was forty years old when the servant of the LORD, Moses, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to reconnoiter the land; and I brought back to him a conscientious report.

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Judges 13:6-8

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1 As for the son you will conceive and bear, no razor shall touch his head, for this boy is to be consecrated to God from the womb. It is he who will begin the deliverance of Israel from the power of the Philistines."

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The woman went and told her husband, "A man of God came to me; he had the appearance of an angel of God, terrible indeed. I did not ask him where he came from, nor did he tell me his name.

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But he said to me, 'You will be with child and will bear a son. So take neither wine nor strong drink, and eat nothing unclean. For the boy shall be consecrated to God from the womb, until the day of his death.'"

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Manoah then prayed to the LORD. "O LORD, I beseech you," he said, "may the man of God whom you sent, return to us to teach us what to do for the boy who will be born."

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God heard the prayer of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she was sitting in the field. Since her husband Manoah was not with her,

1. [5] Consecrated: in Hebrew, nazir. Samson therefore was for life to be under the nazirite vow, which obliged him to abstain from drinking wine or having his hair cut; cf Numbers 6:2-8.

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1 Samuel 2:27

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Meanwhile, young Samuel was growing in stature and in worth in the estimation of the LORD and of men.

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6 A man of God came to Eli and said to him: "This is what the LORD says: 'I went so far as to reveal myself to your father's family when they were in Egypt as slaves to the house of Pharaoh.

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7 I chose them out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priests, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to wear the ephod before me; and I assigned all the oblations of the Israelites to your father's family.

6. [27-36] These verses propose the punishment of Eli from a point of view contemporary with the reform of Josiah (2 Kings 23:9; cf 1 Sam 2:36); they hint at the events recorded in 1 Sam 22:18-23 and 1 Kings 2:27. The older story of this divine warning is that in 1 Sam 3:11-14

7. [28] Ephod: a portable container, presumably of cloth, for the lots used in ritual consultation of God during the days of the Judges (Judges 17:5;18:14-15) and down into the time of David (1 Sam 14:3-5;sam 23:6-8;sam 30:7-8). The ephod of the high priest described in Exodus 28:6-8 becomes a garment upon which a breastpiece of decision symbolizes, but no longer serves for, such consultation. The Exodus text codifies a later form of the tradition.

1 Samuel 9:6-10

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When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to the servant who was with him, "Come, let us turn back, lest my father forget about the asses and become anxious about us."

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The servant replied, "Listen! There is a man of God in this city, a man held in high esteem; all that he says is sure to come true. Let us go there now! Perhaps he can tell us how to accomplish our errand."

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But Saul said to his servant, "If we go, what can we offer the man? There is no bread in our bags, and we have no present to give the man of God. What have we?"

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1 Again the servant answered Saul, "I have a quarter of a silver shekel. If I give that to the man of God, he will tell us our way."

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2(In former times in Israel, anyone who went to consult God used to say, "Come, let us go to the seer." For he who is now called prophet was formerly called seer.)

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Saul then said to his servant, "Well said! Come on, let us go!" And they went to the city where the man of God lived.

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As they were going up the ascent to the city, they met some girls coming out to draw water and inquired of them, "Is the seer in town?"

1. [8] A quarter of a silver shekel: about a tenth of an ounce of silver.

2. [9] (9)This verse is a later explanation of the term seer, first used in the text in 1 Sam 9:11.

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1 Kings 12:22

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On his arrival in Jersusalem, Rehoboam gathered together all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin--one hundred and eighty thousand seasoned warriors--to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam, son of Solomon.

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However, the LORD spoke to Shemaiah, a man of God:

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"Say to Rehoboam, son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to the house of Judah and to Benjamin, and to the rest of the people:

1 Kings 13:1-14, 21, 26-31

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A man of God came from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD, while Jeroboam was standing at the altar to offer sacrifice.

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He cried out against the altar the word of the LORD: "O altar, altar, the LORD says, 'A child shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, who shall slaughter upon you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifice upon you, and he shall burn human bones upon you.'"

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He gave a sign that same day and said: "This is the sign that the LORD has spoken: The altar shall break up and the ashes on it shall be strewn about.

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When King Jeroboam heard what the man of God was crying out against the altar, he stretched forth his hand from the altar and said, "Seize him!" But the hand he stretched forth against him withered, so that he could not draw it back.

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Moreover, the altar broke up and the ashes from it were strewn about--the sign the man of God had given as the word of the LORD.

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Then the king appealed to the man of God. "Entreat the LORD, your God," he said, "and intercede for me that I may be able to withdraw my hand." So the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king recovered the normal use of his hand.

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"Come home with me for some refreshment," the king invited the man of God, "and I will give you a present."

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"If you gave me half your kingdom," the man of God said to the king, "I would not go with you, nor eat bread or drink water in this place.

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For I was instructed by the word of the LORD not to eat bread or drink water and not to return by the way I came."

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So he departed by another road and did not go back the way he had come to Bethel.

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There was an old prophet living in the city, whose sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. When they repeated to their father the words he had spoken to the king,

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the father asked them, "Which way did he go?" And his sons pointed out to him the road taken by the man of God who had come from Judah.

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Then he said to his sons, "Saddle the ass for me." When they had saddled it, he mounted

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and followed the man of God, whom he found seated under a terebinth. When he asked him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" he answered, "Yes."

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Then he said, "Come home with me and have some bread."

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But while they were sitting at table, the LORD spoke to the prophet who had brought him back,

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and he cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah: "The LORD says, 'Because you rebelled against the command of the LORD and did not keep the command which the LORD, your God, gave you,

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but returned and ate bread and drank water in the place where he told you to do neither, your corpse shall not be brought to the grave of your ancestors.'"

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Some passers-by saw the body lying in the road, with the lion standing beside it, and carried the news to the city where the old prophet lived.

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On hearing it, the prophet who had brought him back from his journey said: "It is the man of God who rebelled against the command of the LORD. He has delivered him to a lion, which mangled and killed him, as the LORD predicted to him."

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Then he said to his sons, "Saddle the ass for me." When they had saddled it,

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he went off and found the body lying in the road with the ass and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body nor had it harmed the ass.

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The prophet lifted up the body of the man of God and put it on the ass, and brought it back to the city to mourn over it and to bury it.

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He laid the man's body in his own grave, and they mourned over it: "Alas, my brother!"

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After he had buried him, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried. Lay my remains beside his.

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For the word of the LORD which he proclaimed against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria shall certainly come to pass."

1 Kings 17:18, 24

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Some time later the son of the mistress of the house fell sick, and his sickness grew more severe until he stopped breathing.

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So she said to Elijah, "Why have you done this to me, O man of God? Have you come to me to call attention to my guilt and to kill my son?"

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"Give me your son," Elijah said to her. Taking him from her lap, he carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

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Taking the child, Elijah brought him down into the house from the upper room and gave him to his mother. "See!" Elijah said to her, "your son is alive."

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"Now indeed I know that you you are a man of God," the woman replied to Elijah. "The word of the LORD comes truly from your mouth."

1 Kings 20:28

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The Israelites, too, were called to arms and supplied with provisions; then they went out to engage the foe. The Israelites, encamped opposite them, seemed like a couple of small flocks of goats, while Aram covered the countryside.

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A man of God came up and said to the king of Israel: "The LORD says, 'Because Aram has said the LORD is a god of mountains, not a god of plains, I will deliver up to you all this large army, that you may know I am the LORD.'"

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They were encamped opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day battle was joined, and the Israelites struck down one hundred thousand foot soldiers of Aram in one day.

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2 Kings 1:9-13

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2"Wearing a hairy garment," they replied, "with a leather girdle about his loins." "It is Elijah the Tishbite!" he exclaimed.

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Then the king sent a captain with his company of fifty men after Elijah. The prophet was seated on a hilltop when he found him. "Man of God," he ordered, "the king commands you to come down."

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"If I am a man of God," Elijah answered the captain, "may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men." And fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.

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Ahaziah sent another captain with his company of fifty men after Elijah. "Man of God," he called out to Elijah, "the king commands you to come down immediately."

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3"If I am a man of God," Elijah answered him, "may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men." And divine fire came down from heaven, consuming him and his fifty men.

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Again, for the third time, Ahaziah sent a captain with his company of fifty men. When the third captain arrived, he fell to his knees before Elijah, pleading with him. "Man of God," he implored him, "let my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants, count for something in your sight!

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Already fire has come down from heaven, consuming two captains with their companies of fifty men. But now, let my life mean something to you!"

2. [8] Hairy garment: a sign of ascetical and prophetic calling, imitated by John the Baptizer; see Matthew 3:4;Mark 1:6.

3. [12] Divine fire: literally, "fire of God," which in Hebrew sounds quite like man of God. The play on words is the basis for Elijah's alleged retort. This story was told among the people to enhance the dignity of the prophet and to reflect the power of God whom he served. The mercy which God extends even to the wicked is described in Wisdom 11:17-12,22 and the prophet Elijah was well aware of it (1 Kings 21:28-29).

2 Kings 4:7-9, 16, 21-27, 40-42

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When all the vessels were filled, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." "There is none left," he answered her. And then the oil stopped.

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She went and told the man of God, who said, "Go and sell the oil to pay off your creditor; with what remains, you and your children can live."

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One day Elisha came to Shunem, where there was a woman of influence, who urged him to dine with her. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he used to stop there to dine.

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So she said to her husband, "I know that he is a holy man of God. Since he visits us often,

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let us arrange a little room on the roof and furnish it for him with a bed, table, chair, and lamp, so that when he comes to us he can stay there."

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"Call her," said Elisha. When she had been called, and stood at the door,

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Elisha promised, "This time next year you will be fondling a baby son." "Please, my lord," she protested, "you are a man of God; do not deceive your servant."

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Yet the woman conceived, and by the same time the following year she had given birth to a son, as Elisha had promised.

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The servant picked him up and carried him to his mother; he stayed with her until noon, when he died in her lap.

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The mother took him upstairs and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Closing the door on him, she went out

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and called to her husband, "Let me have a servant and a donkey. I must go quickly to the man of God, and I will be back."

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"Why are you going to him today?" he asked. "It is neither the new moon nor the sabbath." But she bade him good-bye,

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and when the donkey was saddled, said to her servant: "Lead on! Do not stop my donkey unless I tell you to."

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She kept going till she reached the man of God on Mount Carmel. When he spied her at a distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi: "There is the Shunammite!

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2 Hurry to meet her, and ask if all is well with her, with her husband, and with the boy." "Greetings," she replied.

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But when she reached the man of God on the mountain, she clasped his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of God said: "Let her alone, she is in bitter anguish; the LORD hid it from me and did not let me know."

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"Did I ask my lord for a son?" she cried out. "Did I not beg you not to deceive me?"

2. [26] Greetings: the conventional answer to Gehazi's question, which tells him nothing.

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Someone went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine, from which he picked a clothful of wild gourds. On his return he cut them up into the pot of vegetable stew without anybody's knowing it.

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The stew was poured out for the men to eat, but when they began to eat it, they exclaimed, "Man of God, there is poison in the pot!" And they could not eat it.

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"Bring some meal," Elisha said. He threw it into the pot and said, "Serve it to the people to eat." And there was no longer anything harmful in the pot.

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A man came from Baal-shalishah bringing the man of God twenty barley loaves made from the first fruits, and fresh grain in the ear. "Give it to the people to eat," Elisha said.

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But his servant objected, "How can I set this before a hundred men?" "Give it to the people to eat," Elisha insisted. "For thus says the LORD, 'They shall eat and there shall be some left over.'"

2 Kings 5:8, 14-15, 20

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When he read the letter, the king of Israel tore his garments and exclaimed: "Am I a god with power over life and death, that this man should send someone to me to be cured of leprosy? Take note! You can see he is only looking for a quarrel with me!"

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When Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had torn his garments, he sent word to the king: "Why have you torn your garments? Let him come to me and find out that there is a prophet in Israel."

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Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha's house.

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But his servants came up and reasoned with him. "My father," they said, "if the prophet had told you to do something extraordinary, would you not have done it? All the more now, since he said to you, 'Wash and be clean,' should you do as he said."

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So Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

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He returned with his whole retinue to the man of God. On his arrival he stood before him and said, "Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel. Please accept a gift from your servant."

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"As the LORD lives whom I serve, I will not take it," Elisha replied; and despite Naaman's urging, he still refused.

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3"Go in peace," Elisha said to him.

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Naaman had gone some distance when Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, thought to himself: "My master was too easy with this Aramean Naaman, not accepting what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something out of him."

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So Gehazi hurried after Naaman. Aware that someone was running after him, Naaman alighted from his chariot to wait for him. "Is everything all right?" he asked.

3. [19] Go in peace: Elisha understands and approves the situation of Naaman who, though a proselyte as regards belief in and worship of the God of Israel, is required by his office to assist his master, the king, worshiping in the pagan temple of Rimmon.

2 Kings 6:6-10, 15

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While one of them was felling a tree trunk, the iron axhead slipped into the water. "O master," he cried out, "it was borrowed!"

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"Where did it fall?" asked the man of God. When he pointed out the spot, Elisha cut off a stick, threw it into the water, and brought the iron to the surface.

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"Pick it up," he said. And the man reached down and grasped it.

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When the king of Aram was waging war on Israel, he would make plans with his servants to attack a particular place.

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But the man of God would send word to the king of Israel, "Be careful! Do not pass by this place, for Aram will attack there."

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So the king of Israel would send word to the place which the man of God had indicated, and alert it; then they would be on guard. This happened several times.

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Greatly disturbed over this, the king of Aram called together his officers. "Will you not tell me," he asked them, "who among us is for the king of Israel?"

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he sent there a strong force with horses and chariots. They arrived by night and surrounded the city.

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Early the next morning, when the attendant of the man of God arose and went out, he saw the force with its horses and chariots surrounding the city. "Alas!" he said to Elisha. "What shall we do, my lord?"

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"Do not be afraid," Elisha answered. "Our side outnumbers theirs."

2 Kings 7:2, 17-19

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1 Elisha said: "Hear the word of the LORD! Thus says the LORD, 'At this time tomorrow a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the market of Samaria.'"

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But the adjutant on whose arm the king leaned, answered the man of God, "Even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, how could this happen?" "You shall see it with your own eyes," Elisha said, "but you shall not eat of it."

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At the city gate were four lepers who were deliberating, "Why should we sit here until we die?

1. [1] Market: literally "gate," the principal place of trading in ancient walled cities in time of peace.

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The people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans; and then a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel, as the LORD had said.

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The king put in charge of the gate the officer who was his adjutant; but the people trampled him to death at the gate, just as the man of God had predicted when the king visited him.

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Thus was fulfilled the prophecy of the man of God to the king, "Two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and one seah of fine flour for a shekel at this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria."

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The adjutant had answered the man of God, "Even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, how could this happen?" And Elisha had replied, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it."

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And that is what happened to him, for the people trampled him to death at the gate.

2 Kings 8:2-11

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Elisha once said to the woman whose son he had restored to life: "Get ready! Leave with your family and settle wherever you can, because the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine which is coming upon the land."

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The woman got ready and did as the man of God said, setting out with her family and settling in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

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At the end of the seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went out to the king to claim her house and her field.

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The king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God. "Tell me," he said, "all the great things that Elisha has done."

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Just as he was relating to the king how his master had restored a dead person to life, the very woman whose son Elisha had restored to life came to the king to claim her house and field. "My lord king," Gehazi said, "this is the woman, and this is that son of hers whom Elisha restored to life."

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1 The king questioned the woman, and she told him her story. With that the king placed an official at her disposal, saying, "Restore all her property to her, with all that the field produced from the day she left the land until now."

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Elisha came to Damascus at a time when Ben-hadad, king of Aram, lay sick. When he was told that the man of God had come there,

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the king said to Hazael, "Take a gift with you and go call on the man of God. Have him consult the LORD as to whether I shall recover from this sickness."

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Hazael went to visit him, carrying a present, and with forty camel loads of the best goods of Damascus. On his arrival, he stood before the prophet and said, "Your son Ben-hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to ask you whether he will recover from his sickness."

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"Go and tell him," Elisha answered, "that he will surely recover. However, the LORD has showed me that he will in fact die."

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Then he stared him down until Hazael became ill at ease. The man of God wept,

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and Hazael asked, "Why are you weeping, my lord?" Elisha replied, "Because I know the evil that you will inflict upon the Israelites. You will burn their fortresses, you will slay their youth with the sword, you will dash their little children to pieces, you will rip open their pregnant women."

1. [6] An official: literally "eunuch," and perhaps actually so in this instance.

2 Kings 13:19

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Then he said to the king of Israel, "Take the arrows," which he did. Elisha said to him, "Strike the ground!" He struck the ground three times and stopped.

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Angry with him, the man of God said: "You should have struck five or six times; you would have defeated Aram completely. Now, you will defeat Aram only three times."

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Elisha died and was buried. At the time, bands of Moabites used to raid the land each year.

2 Kings 23:16-17

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Likewise the altar which was at Bethel, the high place built by Jeroboam, son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin--this same altar and high place he tore down, breaking up the stones and grinding them to powder, and burning the Asherah.

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When Josiah turned and saw the graves there on the mountainside, he ordered the bones taken from the graves and burned on the altar, and thus defiled it in fulfillment of the word of the LORD which the man of God had proclaimed as Jeroboam was standing by the altar on the feast day. When the king looked up and saw the grave of the man of God who had proclaimed these words,

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he asked, "What is that tombstone I see?" The men of the city replied, "It is the grave of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted the very things you have done to the altar of Bethel."

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5"Let him be," he said, "let no one move his bones." So they left his bones undisturbed together with the bones of the prophet who had come from Samaria.

5. [18] From Samaria: more narrowly, from Bethel; cf 1 Kings 13:31-32.

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1 Chronicles 23:14

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The sons of Amram were Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to be consecrated as most holy, he and his sons forever, to offer sacrifice before the LORD, to minister to him, and to bless his name forever.

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As for Moses, however, the man of God, his sons were counted as part of the tribe of Levi.

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The sons of Moses were Gershom and Eliezer.

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2 Chronicles 8:14

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as was required day by day according to the command of Moses, and in particular on the sabbaths, at the new moons, and on the fixed festivals three times a year: on the feast of the Unleavened Bread, the feast of Weeks and the feast of Booths.

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And according to the ordinance of his father David he appointed the various classes of the priests for their service, and the Levites according to their functions of praise and ministry alongside the priests, as the daily duty required. The gatekeepers of the various classes stood guard at each gate, since such was the command of David, the man of God.

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There was no deviation from the king's command in any respect relating to the priests and Levites or the treasuries.

2 Chronicles 11:2

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On his arrival in Jerusalem Rehoboam gathered together the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand seasoned warriors, to have them fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to him.

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However, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, a man of God:

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"Say to Rehoboam, son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin:

2 Chronicles 25:7-9

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He also hired a hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

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But a man of God came to him and said: "O king, let not the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, with any Ephraimite.

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Instead, go on your own, strongly prepared for the conflict; otherwise the LORD will defeat you in the face of the enemy. It is God who has the power to reinforce or to defeat."

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Amaziah answered the man of God, "But what is to be done about the hundred talents that I paid for the troops of Israel?" The man of God replied, "The LORD can give you much more than that."

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Amaziah then disbanded the troops that had come to him from Ephraim, and sent them home. They, however, became furiously angry with Judah, and returned home blazing with resentment.

2 Chronicles 30:16

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They slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites, touched with shame, sanctified themselves and brought holocausts into the house of the LORD.

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They stood in the places prescribed for them according to the law of Moses, the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood given them by the Levites;

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for many in the assembly had not sanctified themselves, and the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover victims for all who were unclean and therefore could not consecrate them to the LORD.

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Ezra 3:2

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1 Now when the seventh month came, after the Israelites had settled in their cities, the people gathered at Jerusalem as one man.

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Then Jeshua, son of Jozadak, together with his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, together with his brethren, set about rebuilding the altar of the God of Israel in order to offer on it the holocausts prescribed in the law of Moses, the man of God.

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Despite their fear of the peoples of the land, they replaced the altar on its foundations and offered holocausts to the LORD on it, both morning and evening.

1. [1-2] The seventh month: Tishri (September-October), apparently of 538 B.C.; cf Ezra 1:1;4:5. In this case, it was Sheshbazzar who erected the first altar, since he began the work on the foundations of the temple in Jerusalem; cf Ezra 5:16. It was in the second year of Darius I, i.e., in 520 B.C., that Jeshua and Zerubbabel resumed the work on the temple that had been temporarily interrupted (Ezra 4:24-5:1; Haggai 1:1;2:1). The Chronicler or a later editor of the text here attributes to them the beginning of the work which, in reality, they merely completed. Shealtiel: the eldest son of King Jehoiachin of Judah and the brother of Sheshbazzar (1 Chron 3:18-19); Zerubbabel was therefore the grandson of Jehoiachin; see note on Ezra 1:8.

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Nehemiah 12:24, 36

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The sons of Levi: the family heads were written down in the Book of Chronicles, up until the time of Johanan, the son of Eliashib.

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The heads of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel. Their brethren who stood opposite them to sing praises and thanksgiving in fulfillment of the command of David, the man of God, one section opposite the other,

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were Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah.Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers. They kept watch over the storerooms at the gates.

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priests with the trumpets, and also Zechariah, son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph,

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and his brethren Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David, the man of God. (Ezra the scribe was at their head.)

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At the Spring Gate they went straight up by the steps of the City of David and continued along the top of the wall above the house of David until they came to the Water Gate on the east.

+ Psalms ↑

Psalms 90:1

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1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our refuge through all generations.

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Before the mountains were born, the earth and the world brought forth, from eternity to eternity you are God.

1. [Psalm 90] A communal lament that describes only in general terms the cause of the community's distress. After confidently invoking God (Psalm 90:1), the psalm turns to a complaint contrasting God's eternity with the brevity of human life (Psalm 90:2-6) and sees in human suffering the punishment for sin (Psalm 90:7-12). The psalm concludes with a plea for God's intervention (Psalm 90:13-17).

+ Jeremiah ↑

Jeremiah 35:4

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So I went and brought Jaazaniah, son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah, his brothers and all his sons, the whole company of the Rechabites,

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2 into the house of the LORD, to the room of the sons of Hanan, son of Igdaliah, the man of God, next to the princes' room, above the room of Maaseiah, son of Shallum, keeper of the doorway.

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I set before these Rechabite men bowls full of wine and offered them cups to drink the wine.

2. [4] The sons of Hanan: probably the disciples of this man of God or prophet. Maaseiah: possibly the father of the priest Zephaniah (Jeremiah 29:25;37:3). Keeper of the doorway: a priestly function of responsibility; cf Jeremiah 52:24.

+ 1 Timothy ↑

1 Timothy 6:11

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For the love of money is the root of all evils, and some people in their desire for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.

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56 But you, man of God, avoid all this. Instead, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

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Compete well for the faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which you were called when you made the noble confession in the presence of many witnesses.

5. [11-16] Timothy's position demands total dedication to God and faultless witness to Christ (1 Tim 6:11-14) operating from an awareness, through faith, of the coming revelation in Jesus of the invisible God (1 Tim 6:15-16).

6. [11] Man of God: a title applied to Moses and the prophets (Deut 33:1; 1 Sam 2:27;Kings 12:22;Kings 13:1; etc.).