When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho facing him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.”
They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
They said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men.
Please let them go and seek your master.
Perhaps the LORD’s Spirit has taken him up, and put him on some mountain or into some valley.”
He said, “Don’t send them.”
When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, “Send them.”
Therefore they sent fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn’t find him.