Week 3: Ministry of Elisha

Ministry of Elisha: 2 Kings 6-6&8

Objective: 

• The Floating Ax Head

• The Blinded Syrians Captured

Resources:

• Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary
• Catena Bible Commentary
• Fr Dawoud Lamie Bible study (Arabic)

Reading:

• • 2 Kings 6:1-23
  • 2 Kings 4:8:1-44
  • 2 Kings 5:1-2715

Key verse(s):

• “As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I willDo not leavefear, you.”for those who are with us are more than those who are with them” 2 Kings 4:306:16

Comments:

• JehoshaphatThe fellFloating intoAx Head

• Elisha did not want the sameSyrians mistake again. This time they also almost died fromand the lackIsraelites to enter the war. The action that Elisha took shows how to apply the commandment of water.becoming a peacemaker.

• The King Restores the Shunammite’s Land because of Elisha and thewhat Widow’she Oildid with her and her son.

• Ben-Hadad king of Syria was sick and wanted to know from Elisha prophesiedif the womanhe will conceiverecover. aHazel son

  knew
what
• will

  happen as Elisha Raises the Shunammite’s Son

• Elisha Purifies the Pot of Stew

• Elisha Feeds One Hundred Men

• Naaman’s Leprosy Healed

• Gehazi’s Greedprophesied.

Review/recap questions:
**Servant may add more questions

1. HowWhen wereElisha prayed what did he want the Moabitesyoung misleadman andto losesee?
2. How did Elisha deal with the war?Syrian raiders who came to him?
3. Did“Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” Who was Elisha referring to in this verse?
4. How did the Shunammite woman havelose aher great faith in Elisha? Prove this.
5. How would some flour remove the poison from the pot?
6. What do you conclude about Naaman’s character?land?
7. Why did Elisha refuse to take a gift from Naaman?weep?

Homework:
**Servant may add more questions

1. TheWhat Moabites sawdid the waterservant of Elisha see when Elisha prayed for him?
   a) a great army b) horses and thought:chariots of fire c) soldiers d) flocks and sheep
2. How did Elisha lead the Syrian army inside Samaria?
   a) theyblinded will drownthem b) there issent a floodleader in front of them c) itforced isthem bloodinto the city
3. Whom did Shunammite woman ask for her land?
   a) Gehazi b) the king c) Elisha d) the enemies drownedphilistines
4. TheWho widowdid toldBen-Hadad ask if he will recover from his disease?
   a) Gehazi b) Hazael c) Elisha she has nothing in her house except:
   a) one loaf of bread b) two coins c) empty jars d) a jar of oil
5. The Shunammite woman asked Elisha to:
   a) give her oil b) heal her son c) to pray for her d) to raise her son from the dead
6. Why was Naaman great in the eyesKing of his master?
   a) he was a leper b) he was honorable c) he was mighty d) by him the Lord gave victory to Syria
7. How was Gehazi punished?
   a) he became a leper b) he lost his money c) he was killed d) he was thrown in prison