fifty of his servants; these all fell on their knees,
entreating the prophet with trembling hearts
that he would not consume them, though they announced their errand,
like the others who had come to him before.
Then God's angel bade him go
forth with the men, fearlessly to the king.
Then Elijah went to the sick king,
and told [the king] himself that he should die,
because he had sent to the shameful idol
to enquire concerning his healing, as if God were not in Israel.
So the king died even as the prophet had said,
and his brother Jehoram succeeded to his kingdom,
and held it evilly for eleven years,
and his mother Jezebel lived wickedly
in foul whoredom, and in every iniquity,
until God's vengeance ended her cruelty.
In the meantime the prophet Elijah
was borne up to heaven hale, without death,
and liveth yet in the body with perpetual strength.
His disciple Elisha went with him before (his translation);
then said the master Elijah to his disciple,
'Ask me, lo! what thou wilt before I be taken up
away from thy sight, and from this toil.'
Then said Elisha to the venerable prophet,
'I pray thee, my father, that I may be filled
with the prophetic spirit which now dwelleth in thee.'
Then said Elijah to his disciple,
' Thou hast asked much, but thou shalt, nevertheless, be so,
if thou canst see how I journey hence;
if thou seest it not, verily it shall not be.'
Amidst their speaking came a heavenly chariot,
as if all of fire, with flying horses,
