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2 Kings


Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by William H. Johnson
The Fiery Ascent of the Prophet Elijah by Unknown artist
Elijah Went Up by a Whirlwind into Heaven (Chariot of Fire) by Shlomo Katz

Elijah’s Ascent

2 Kings 2:1–12

Beginning of Second Kings with historiated initial showing the messengers of Elijah and Ahaziah, from the Winchester Bible by Unknown English artist known as the Master of the Leaping Figures
Elisha and the Sons of the Prophets by Gerhard Remisch
The Drunkenness of Noah; The Mocking of Christ; Children mocking the prophet Elisha, from a Biblia Pauperum by Unknown Netherlandish artist

Elisha Begins

2 Kings 2:12–25

View of Emily Dickinson's bedroom at the Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, Massachusetts by Unknown artist
Frida Kahlo, wife of Rivera, a painter herself (Frida Kahlo in her bed) by Gisèle Freund
Resting with the Ancestors by Charlie Watts and Tricia Hersey

Making Room for Care and Creativity

2 Kings 4:8–37

Waterfall on the Abana, near Damascus by Francis Frith
A man in Oriental Costume (King Uzziah Stricken by Leprosy) by Rembrandt van Rijn
Seven Scenes from the Story of the Seven Sacraments, Namaan Being Cleansed in the Jordan

The Healing of Naaman

2 Kings 5

Rage, Flower Thrower by Banksy
The miraculously floating axe-head: followers of Elisha cut trees near the river Jordan from Guiard des Moulins, Grande Bible Historiale Complétée by Jan Boudolf
100 Billion Suns by Katie Paterson

Logics of Reversal

2 Kings 6:1–23


1 Kings 1 Chronicles

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