(i.e. God the Deliverer), the successor of Elijah, whose mantle he received at his translation. At the opening of his ministry he vindicated his claim to a divine mission by the division of the Jordan, and the destruction of the children who taunted him with the translation of his master. He next predicted the miraculous supply of water to the hosts of Jehoram and Jehoshaphat, which proved the destruction of the Moabites. His miracles, unlike those of Elijah, were generally miracles of mercy, as, for example, multiplying the widow's oil, raising the Shunamite's son, and healing the leprosy of Naaman. Having defeated the schemes of the Syrian king, he escaped from the hand sent to apprehend him, by smiting them with blindness, and leading them into the heart of Samaria (B.C. 892). After predicting the liberation of Samaria from siege, he next appears as predicting the death of Benhadad. Having anointed Jehu, he disappears from the sacred narrative, and at the advanced age of ninety, he is called to his rest. Jehu mourned at his funeral; and a dead body touched by his bones immediately started into life.