they concentrate so much on the lives of the two prophets, whereas accounts of the prophets are more sporadic and less extended in the remainder of the book. We can only speculate about what sources of information about Elijah and Elisha may have been available to the compiler of the book of Kings. It is at least possible that a proponent of the reforms undertaken by Jehu pulled together the stories about Elijah and Elisha into a single narrative in order to show how bad conditions had become during