But I think Elisha knew what the Prophet had meant by casting his mantle upon him!
So Elisha took a yoke of oxen, and with the ploughing instruments for his fire, he boiled their flesh, and gave to the famine-stricken people to eat, and then he went after Elijah and became his devoted servant.
Then many years passed on, and there were great wars between Ahab and the King of Syria.
But Ahab did not leave off his wicked ways, and at length God sent Elijah to Samaria to warn him that God's judgment would come upon him in the very spot in which he and Jezebel had sinned against Him.
I have not space to tell you here about Ahab coveting Naboth's vineyard, nor how Jezebel had Naboth killed in order that Ahab might possess it.
But God's judgments always come true, and though Ahab was killed by a chance bow-shot in a great battle, yet, as God had said by Elijah, "dogs licked up his blood" in Naboth's vineyard, which was close by the king's palace in Samaria, where the men were washing out his chariot after the battle!
[XXXI. SOLOMON'S WISDOM
AND SOLOMON'S TEMPLE]
SOLOMON, the son of David, was anointed King, as the Lord had promised David.