Touched the Bones of Elisha
My daughter was excited to tell me a story about Elisha yesterday that her teacher had told her in Primary and which apparently was his favorite. I had to find it, and I guess we could say that it is the last miracle that came about because of Elisha. We read, “Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died.” After the king Joash wept over him and Elisha prophesied to him, “Elisha died, and they buried him.” But that wasn’t the end: “And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet” (2 Kings 13:14, 20-21). So after Elisha was buried, some Israelites were burying a different man when they got scared from a band of invading Moabites and rushed to put the body of this man in the sepulchre of Elisha. And when this bo...