Gleanings from Elisha: His Life and Miracles (Biblia.com)

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Unlike the miracles of Elijah, which were primarily concerned with destruction and death, those of Elisha were focused on healing and life. As Pink notes in the introduction, “Far more miracles were wrought by him or were granted in answer to his prayers than any other of the Old Testament prophets. In fact the narrative of his history consists of little else than a record of supernatural acts...

IN view of all that has been before us, this should now be apparent. As we have sought to show, Elisha is to be regarded all through the piece as the representative servant, as a figure of the ministers of Christ: in their call, their testings, the path they must tread, their spiritual endowment; and the miracles he performed are not to be taken as exceptions to the rule. What then is the meaning and message of this first miracle, the smiting of and dividing asunder

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