2 Kings 2:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants fifty strong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest perhaps the spirit of the Lord hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley. And he said: Do not send.

¹⁷ But they pressed him, till he consented, and said: Send. And they sent fifty men: and they sought three days but found him not.

¹⁸ And they came back to him: for he abode at Jericho, and he said to them: Did I not say to you: Do not send?