{"id":6896,"date":"2023-01-30T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/?p=6896"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:54:26","slug":"%e5%8f%8c%e5%80%8d%e7%9a%84%e7%a5%9e%e8%bf%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/bible-faith\/devotional-notes\/2023\/01\/%e5%8f%8c%e5%80%8d%e7%9a%84%e7%a5%9e%e8%bf%b9\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Portion of Miracles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Book of Kings records 10 miracles associated with Elijah:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Proclaiming no rain (1 Kings 17:1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Being fed by ravens (1 Kings 17:6)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Ensuring the widow’s oil and flour did not run out (1 Kings 17:14)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Raising the widow’s son from the dead (1 Kings 17:22)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Calling down fire on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:38)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Calling down heavy rain (1 Kings 18:45)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Pronouncing judgment on Ahab (1 Kings 21:17-29)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Pronouncing judgment on Ahaziah (2 Kings 1:3-17)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Parting the Jordan River (2 Kings 2:8)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Ascending to heaven in a whirlwind (2 Kings 2:11)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Image: The Jordan River near Jericho today, typically about 3 meters deep, but reaching around 7 meters deep during the flood season in January 2013.
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    The Book of Kings records 20 miracles associated with Elisha, double that of Elijah:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Parting the Jordan River (2 Kings 2:14)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Healing the bitter waters of Jericho (2 Kings 2:21)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Bears mauling the youths (2 Kings 2:24)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Water appearing in the Valley of Moab (2 Kings 3:20)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Filling empty jars with oil (2 Kings 4:5-6)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Prophesying the Shunammite woman would have a son (2 Kings 4:17)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. Raising the Shunammite woman’s son from the dead (2 Kings 4:36)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    8. Detoxifying poisoned stew with flour (2 Kings 4:41)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    9. Feeding one hundred people (2 Kings 4:43)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    10. Healing Naaman (2 Kings 5:10)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    11. Striking Gehazi with leprosy (2 Kings 5:27)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    12. Making the iron axe head float (2 Kings 6:6)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    13. Opening his servant’s eyes (2 Kings 6:18)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    14. Striking the enemy with blindness (2 Kings 6:18)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    15. Restoring the enemy’s sight (2 Kings 6:20)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    16. Prophesying Samaria’s deliverance (2 Kings 7:1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    17. Prophesying the officer’s death (2 Kings 7:2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    18. Prophesying Hazael’s usurpation (2 Kings 8:13)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    19. Prophesying Israel would defeat Aram only three times (2 Kings 13:18)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    20. Bones bringing a man to life (2 Kings 13:21)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      Image: Elisha’s Spring in Jericho. Tell es-Sultan (Sultan’s Hill) is the ancient city of Jericho, located 9 km north of the Dead Sea and 7 km west of the Jordan River. It’s an oasis beside the Wadi Qelt (Qelt Dry Stream) in the Jordan Valley. The local area has warm winters and is shaded by palm trees in summer. Elisha’s Spring (2 Kings 2:19-22, modern name Ein as-Sultan) provides water for irrigation.
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      The Book of Kings records 10 miracles associated with Elijah: The Book of Kings records 20 miracles associated with Elisha, double that of Elijah:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devotional-notes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6896"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11391,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions\/11391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}