2 KINGS 2:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.”
Elisha cries out in anguish: "My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" — the same lament he will use when Elijah dies proves prophetic here. The phrase expresses not mere loss but the removal of Israel's spiritual defense; Elijah's intercession with God is worth thousands of chariots. Elisha tears his clothes, the gesture of profound grief and covenant rupture.
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