¹² Elisha kept watching and crying out, “Father, father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” But when he could no longer see him, he grasped his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.^(A)

Death of Elisha

¹⁴ Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, King Joash of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”^(A)

¹² Then they^[a] heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud while their enemies watched them.^(A)

⁸ Therefore it is said,

⁴ For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burden because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.^(A)

² For in this tent we groan, longing to be further clothed with our heavenly dwelling,

² Devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.^(A)

⁹ When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.^(A)

¹³ No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.^[a](A)

⁵¹ While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.^[a](A)