Naaman the Syrian
In Naaman we get man at his best without God. He must have been the world's envy, the great favorite of the day. He was made much of by everyone, by the king himself, and all the nation. The Lord,...
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Death in the Pot
Who never saw death, and yet died? To be dead without having seen death seems absurd. Yet the question is not as foolish as it seems. Are there really persons who have died, although their dying hour has not arrived? You...
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Elisha’s Mentor
A better script could not have been written by the best of dramatists. A solitary prophet of the Lord, roughly-clad and seemingly unknown, explodes on the stage of history and fearlessly declares before wicked King Ahab and his courtiers: "No...
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Who Found it Out?
Is it not singular that the story of four leprous men should be inserted in the Book of the Kings of Israel? No; not for the Bible. If you were to take out of the Scriptures all the stories that...
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Open the Young Man’s Eyes
In 2 Kings 6, Israel's inveterate enemy, the king of Syria, had planned by wicked stealth to destroy them. But Elisha, God's prophet, forewarned Israel's king of the evil devices of his adversary so that the nation was delivered. Then...
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Elisha and the She-Bears
Few accounts in the Bible have been more misunderstood than this one (2 Ki. 2:23-25), due to the rendering "little children" in v. 23 (kjv). It should be translated "youths" or "young men," the word in the singular being used...
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The Pot of Oil
In 2 Kings 3 we have Elisha ministering to the necessities of kings; in chapter 4:1-7, he ministers to a widow and her sons, for there is room in the divine compassions for both the exalted and the lowly. Remarkably...
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Back of the Clouds
The day dawned wet and raw. I felt as limp as the gray flannel sky. I was leaving for meetings and didn't feel either willing to leave home or prepared to go. And I felt I deserved to feel miserable,...
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The Heavens in the Hebrews
The Epistle to the Hebrews may be read in various lights, yet no one ray interferes with another. In the first two chapters, it opens the heavens to you as they now are. How blessed is the introduction of such...
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