2 Kings 6:7
“Lift it out,” he said, and the man reached out his hand and took it.
BSB
ASV
And he said, Take it up to thee. So he put out his hand, and took it.
KJV
Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.
Elisha, by casting a stick into the river Jordan, recovered the iron part of the axe with which the sons of the prophets had gone to cut down trees to build the house in which they wished to read and study the law and commandments of God; even as our Christ, by being crucified on the tree, and by purifying us with water, has redeemed us, though plunged in the direst offences which we have committed, and has made us a house of prayer and adoration.
And accordingly Elisha, having taken "wood" and cast it into that place where the iron had been submerged, forthwith it rose and swam on the surface, and the "wood" sank, which the sons of the prophets recovered. Thus they understood that the spirit of Elijah was presently conferred on him.
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2 Kings 4:36Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”
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Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.
And the dead man sat up and began to speak! Then Jesus gave him back to his mother.
Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. “Look, your son is alive,” Elijah declared.
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Luke 7:15And the dead man sat up and began to speak! Then Jesus gave him back to his mother.
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Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of…
When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.
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Acts 9:41Peter took her by the hand and helped her up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her to them alive.
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In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
So He went to her, took her by the hand, and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began to serve them.
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2 Kings 4:7She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”
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For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,
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