Saturday, January 31, 2015

Water Miracles in the Bible - 6

Water as blood to Moabites

2 Kings 3:21-27 

21 Now all the Moabites had heard that the kings had come to fight against them; so every man, young and old, who could bear arms was called up and stationed on the border. 

22 When they got up early in the morning, the sun was shining on the water. To the Moabites across the way, the water looked red—like blood. 

23 “That's blood!” they said. “Those kings must have fought and slaughtered each other. Now to the plunder, Moab!”

24 But when the Moabites came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and fought them until they fled. And the Israelites invaded the land and slaughtered the Moabites. 

25 They destroyed the towns, and each man threw a stone on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up all the springs and cut down every good tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left with its stones in place, but men armed with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.

26 When the king of Moab saw that the battle had gone against him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through to the king of Edom, but they failed. 

27 Then he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him as a sacrifice on the city wall. The fury against Israel was great; they withdrew and returned to their own land.

Healing of Namaan

Kindly read - 2 kings 5:1-19

Iron ax swimming

2 Kings 6:1-7 

1 The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. 

2 Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to live.” And he said, “Go.”

3 Then one of them said, “Won't you please come with your servants?” “I will,” Elisha replied. 

4 And he went with them. They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees. 

5 As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. “Oh, my lord,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”

6 The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float. 

7 “Lift it out,” he said. Then the man reached out his hand and took it.

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