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Hebrew Bible, a prophet and a wonder-worker. Before he settled in Samaria, Elisha passed some time on Mount Carmel. In the biblical narrative, he is a disciple and protégé of Elijah, and after Elijah was taken up in a whirlwind, Elisha received a double portion of his power and he was accepted as the leader of the sons of the prophets. Elisha then went on to perform twice as many miracles as Elijah. His name first occurs in chapter 19 of the Books of Kings in the command given to Elijah to anoint him as his successor.

Elijah and Elisha went to the Jordan River. Elijah rolls up his mantle and strikes the water, the waters of which divided so as to permit both to pass over on dry ground. Elisha asks to “inherit a double-portion” of Elijah’s spirit. Suddenly, a chariot of fire and horses of fire appear and Elijah is lifted up in a whirlwind. Some scholars see this as indicative of the property inheritance customs of the time, where the oldest son received twice as much of the father’s inheritance as each of the younger sons. In this interpretation Elisha is asking that he may be seen as the “rightful heir” and successor to Elijah.

By means of the mantle let fall from Elijah, Elisha miraculously recrossed the Jordan, and Elisha returned to Jericho, where he won the gratitude of the people by purifying the unwholesome waters of their spring and making them drinkable. When the armies of Judah, Israel and Edom, then allied against Mesha, the Moabite king, were being tortured by drought in the Idumean desert, Elisha consented to intervene. To relieve a prophet’s widow importuned by a harsh creditor, Elisha so multiplied a little oil as to enable her, not only to pay her debt but to provide for her family needs. According to the first Book of Kings, Elijah resuscitated a Phoenician boy in the city of Zarephath.

To nourish the sons of the prophets pressed by famine, Elisha changed a pottage made from poisonous gourds into wholesome food. Elisha cured the Syrian military commander Naaman of leprosy but punished his own servant Gehazi, who took money from Naaman. Elisha then journeyed to Damascus and prophesied that Hazael would be king over Syria, while weeping because of the evil he would do. Elisha directs one of the sons of the prophets to anoint Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, as king of Israel, and commissions him to cut off the house of Ahab.

The miracle at the grave of Elisha. While Elisha lay on his death-bed in his own house, Jehoash of Israel, the grandson of Jehu, came to mourn over his approaching departure, and uttered the same words as those of Elisha when Elijah was taken away, indicating his value to him: “My father, my father! Syrians at Aphek till you have destroyed them. Elisha predicts three successful battles over the Arameans, but no absolute victory.

As soon as the body touched Elisha’s remains the man “revived and stood up on his feet”. He is venerated as a saint in a number of Christian Churches. Translation of the relics and garments of the Apostles Luke, Andrew, and Thomas, the Prophet Eliseus, and Martyr Lazarus of Persia found ca. Eliseus is also commemorated on July 20 with Aaron, Elias and Moses. Elisha is mentioned twice in the Quran as a prophet, alongside fellow prophets.