Bible Dictionary: Obedience: Elisha

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1 Kings 19:19-21
So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle on him.
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The Call of Elisha
... shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room" (1 Kings 19:16), He had said;
and in obedience to the command, Elijah went to find Elisha. ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 17 the call of.htm

How Joram and Jehoshaphat Made an Expedition against the Moabites ...
... he was entering into against the Moabites, who had departed from their obedience,
who not ... of the servants of Joram said that he had seen there Elisha, the son ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 3 how joram and.htm

New Covenant Obedience
... of the beauty of this New Covenant life, with its power of holy and joyful obedience? ...
It is as with Elisha's servant, all heaven is around him and he knows it ...
/.../murray/the two covenants/chapter xiii new covenant obedience.htm

Intenser Wooing.
... There is an instance similar to this in the borrowed axe-head that swam in obedience
to Elisha's touch of power to meet the need of the distressed theological ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on johns gospel/intenser wooing.htm

Divine Calls.
... human feeling, were rebuked for want of promptitude in their obedience;"for time ...
are the circumstances of the call of the great prophet Elisha, though he ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon ii divine calls.htm

Gentleness Succeeding Strength
... Elisha is distinctly secondary to Elijah. He is in no sense an originator,
either of fresh revelations or of new impulses to obedience. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/gentleness succeeding strength.htm

The Spirit of Power
... gift, that strength comes to us by contact, not with Elisha, but with Elisha's Lord
and ... to Him, and in union with Him by faith and love and obedience, can have ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/the spirit of power.htm

Naaman
... The proud spirit of Naaman rebelled against following the course outlined by
Elisha. ... Willing obedience alone would bring the desired result. ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 20 naaman.htm

Naaman's Wrath
... through us all, according to the diagnosis of Christianity, and our Elisha deals
with ... souls which ought to stand in a living relation of glad obedience to our ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/naamans wrath.htm

Matt. Iv. 12
... home, and converse with our kinsfolk," but "they forsook all and followed," even
as Elisha did to Elijah." [574] Because such is the obedience which Christ ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily xiv matt iv 12.htm