CHAPTER V: ELISHA'S MIRACLES [5]40

THE INVASION OF MOAB [4]29

Death of Ahaziah--Jehoram Ben-Ahab of Israel--Good beginnings--Attempts to recover Moab--Alliance with Judah and Edom--The invasion--An army perishing of thirst--Elisha--Music--Trenches in the wâdy--Error of the Moabites--Their disastrous rout--Devastation of the country--Mesha propitiates Chemosh--"Great wrath against Israel"--The invading army retreats.

ELISHA'S MIRACLES [5]40

Their chronological vagueness--Difference between Elisha and Elijah--Contrasts and resemblances--Social life in Israel--1. The widow and the oil--2. The lady of Shunem--Her hospitality--Her reward--3. The boy's death--Her distress--The resuscitation--4. Death in the pot--5. The multiplied first-fruits.