Elisha’s response was most interesting. He asked, “Then let [there] now be on me a double portion of your spirit” (2:9b). The reference to pi snayim, “a double share or portion” of your spirit recalls to mind the inheritance of the eldest son (Deuteronomy 21:17). Dr. J. Rawson Lumby wrote: “The request was not, as some have thought, for twice the spirit [i.e., power] of the departing master. And the attempts which have been made to shew that in some ways Elisha went beyond Elijah [in exercising the