18When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, "Didn't I tell you not to go?"


In Context

15 The company of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, "The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha." And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.

16 "Look," they said, "we your servants have fifty able men. Let them go and look for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the Lord has picked him up and set him down on some mountain or in some valley." "No," Elisha replied, "do not send them."

17 But they persisted until he was too ashamed to refuse. So he said, "Send them." And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find him.

18 When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, "Didn't I tell you not to go?"

19 The men of the city said to Elisha, "Look, our lord, this town is well situated, as you can see, but the water is bad and the land is unproductive."

20 "Bring me a new bowl," he said, "and put salt in it." So they brought it to him.

2nd Kings 2:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:18And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:18And they came back to him: for he abode at Jericho, and he said to them: Did I not say to you: Do not send?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:18And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho; and he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18And they came again to him (now he was staying at Jericho); and he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:18And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho; and he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, |Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?'|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18and they turn back unto him — and he is abiding in Jericho — and he saith unto them, 'Did I not say unto you, Do not go?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:18And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not?