Hey, this is a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

I'm Shelby, and I'm here with Paul.

We're in the book of Second Kings.

We're talking through chapters four through six today.

Paul, can you break these chapters down for us?

Yeah, so we're getting more of Elisha's prophetic activity.

And I think the best way we can describe these chapters is two words, weird, but also wonderful. Okay, and I love the alliteration there,

two Ws. Yeah, yeah, good, good point. Yeah, great, caught on to that. So in chapter four,

we have a number of radical miracles of compassion involving Elisha,

and the most notable is the resurrection of this woman's son.

And there's kind of an interesting note, I just want to mention quickly.

The boy, when he wakes, he sneezes seven times, which is a little weird.

So the only place in the Bible we get this word for sneeze.

But this number seven

carries this idea of completeness in the Bible. And we see that again in chapter five, where

Naiman, who has the skin disease, he washes seven times. So it's connected partially to the fact

that God created the world in seven days, has this idea of completeness, of perfection, of wholeness.

And so in these healings, this number seven pops up to show, hey, they're being healed completely, right?

And then in chapter six, we have this weird story about a floating axe head, and then we have some of Israel's war with a ROM.

So again, yeah, weird but wonderful.

Weird but wonderful. Okay, I love that. What do we take away from these weird but wonderful chapters?

Yeah, so we definitely could kind of go into like the specifics of each of these miracles.

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