Welcome to Bible Stories. We are your hosts Matt. Hello and my name is Todd. We are two ministers slash buds who love

the stories of the Bible and man we want to tell you all about a mom's friends.

Today is a special one. It's a little bony, a little hairy. It's going to be a great one.

Matt, take it away. Yeah, before we get there, I'm so excited about it. I like to officially welcome you back to our country, Todd. Thank you. You've been on a trip far away. Yeah, far far away. You guys went on the trip to Mordor, is that right? Following the steps of the Lord of the Rings? We did we did I was

gonna mix that up with saying that we hopped off the platform nine and three quarters

but that doesn't make sense so So yeah we went to Middle Earth, a special time, very

special time, and my feet came back larger and hairy, but it's okay.

Wow, man that's so exciting because I remember the last time you went through that big wardrobe

and it was tough because you couldn't bring a lot of luggage with you right only what would fit through that

wardrobe yeah yeah I think that's a

a CS Lewis type story now so we're getting them all

mixed up but I like it it's one big book it's just one big old book it is is. It is. That's true. So true. Well buddy you're right I'm really

excited about this story. This one's a unique one. I'm going to take you back to the

time of Elisha, one of the greatest prophets of Israel and this fellow is near his death.

He's suffering from some unnamed illness and the king of Israel comes to see him.

That would have been a proper thing to do, right?

Yeah.

Although the king, a dude named Joe Ash, he hadn't lived a life worthy of much praise.

The Bible describes his actions as evil.

He came to visit the prophet before his passing because that's what would have been expected

of the King. Todd, if there's someone in our culture today that you revere as much as the

king of Israel would have revered a prophet like

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