Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 2 Kings 2:12, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 2 Kings 13:14
Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my fa…
- John 3:13
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
- 2 Corinthians 5:4
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed u…
- Luke 2:15
And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see…
- Luke 24:51
And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
- Isaiah 37:15
And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
- Acts 8:2
And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
- Acts 1:9
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
- Proverbs 30:4
Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established …
- Ephesians 4:8
Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
- Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the ev…
- 2 Corinthians 5:2
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
More to meet God in 2 Kings
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.