2 Kings 9:1
Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak under your belt, take this flask of oil, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
Note Literally Gird up your loins
And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead:
Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.
And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this vial of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the children
- 2 Kings 4:1; 2 Kings 6:1–3
- See on
- 1 Kings 20:35
- Gird up thy loins
- As the upper garments of the Orientals were long and flowing, it was indispensably necessary to tuck up the skirts with a girdle about their loins, in order to use any expedition in their work or on a journey.
- 2 Kings 4:29; 1 Kings 18:46; Jeremiah 1:17; Luke 12:35–37; 1 Peter 1:13
- box of oil
- 1 Samuel 10:1; 1 Samuel 16:1; 1 Kings 1:39
- Ramoth-gilead
- 2 Kings 8:28, 29; Deuteronomy 4:1, 3; 1 Kings 22:4, 20