2 Kings 2:9–15

⁹When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?”

“Let me inherit a double^l portion of your spirit,”^m Elisha replied.

¹⁰“You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”

¹¹As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fireⁿ and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven^o in a whirlwind.^{p 12}Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots^q and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore^r it in two.

¹³Elisha then picked up Elijah’s cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. ¹⁴He took the cloak^s that had fallen from Elijah and struck^t the water with it. “Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.

¹⁵The company^u of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, “The spirit^v of Elijah is resting on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.