2 Kings 2

2 ¹As our Papa dey ready to carry Elijah go up for heaven inside whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha comot from Gilgal. ²Elijah tell Elisha, “Abeg stay for here; our Papa send me go Bethel.” Elisha talk, “As our Papa dey alive, and as you dey alive, I no go leave you.” So dem waka go down to Bethel.

³Di prophets wey dey Bethel comot come meet Elisha and ask am, “You know say today our Papa go carry your master comot from ontop your head?” “Yes, I know,” e talk. “Make you keep quiet.”

⁴Elijah talk, “Elisha, abeg stay for here; our Papa send me go Jericho.” E answer, “As our Papa dey alive, and as you dey alive, I no go leave you.” So dem waka go Jericho.

⁵Di prophets group wey dey Jericho come near Elisha, dey ask, “You know say our Papa go carry your master comot from you today?” “Yes, I know,” e talk. “Make you keep quiet.”

⁶Elijah talk give am, “Abeg stay for here; our Papa don send me go di River Jordan.” E talk, “As our Papa dey alive, and as you dey alive, I no go leave you.” So di two of dem waka dey go.

⁷Fifty men from di prophets’ group go stand dey look dem from far, while di two of dem stand for di side of di River Jordan. ⁸Elijah take im cloak, roll am, hit di water, and e split for both side; di two of dem cross ontop dry ground. ⁹As dem don cross, Elijah tell Elisha, “Ask wetin I go do for you before dem carry me comot from you.” Elisha talk, “Abeg make I inherit double portion of your spirit.”

¹⁰“You don ask hard tin,” Elijah talk. “If you see me as dem carry me comot from you, e go be your own; but if you no see, e no go be so.”

¹¹As dem dey waka dey talk, chariot wey dey burn fire and horses wey dey burn fire come separate dem two, and Elijah go up to heaven inside whirlwind. ¹²Elisha see am come cry, “My papa, my papa! Israel im chariots and horsemen!” Then e no see am again. E grab im clothes come tear am for two.

¹³E pick up Elijah im cloak wey fall down, go back, come stand for di bank of di River Jordan. ¹⁴E take Elijah im cloak wey fall down, hit di water, come ask, “Where our Papa dey, di God of Elijah?” E hit am; di water divide for right and left, and Elisha cross go over.

¹⁵Di prophets wey dey Jericho, wey dey opposite am, see am come talk, “Elijah im spirit don rest ontop Elisha.” Dem come meet am, dey bow reach ground for im front. ¹⁶“Look,” dem talk, “your servants get fifty strong men. Make dem go find your master—maybe di Spirit of our Papa carry am up come drop am for some mountain or inside some valley.” “No,” Elisha talk, “no send dem.”

¹⁷Dem press am until shame catch am to refuse. “Send dem,” e talk. So dem send fifty men, wey find am for three days but dem no see am.

¹⁸When dem come back to Elisha, wey still dey Jericho, e tell dem, “No be I tell una say make una no go?”

Our Papa Heal Jericho Water

¹⁹Di people of di city tell Elisha, “Look, our oga, dis town sidon well, as you see am, but di water bad and di land no dey bring anytin.”

²⁰“Bring me new bowl,” e talk, “and put salt inside am.” Dem bring am give am.

²¹E go out to di spring, throw salt inside, come talk, “Na wetin our Papa talk be dis: I don heal dis water; e no go cause death or barren land again.”

²²And di water don remain clean reach today, according to di word wey Elisha don talk.

²³From dia Elisha go up to Bethel. As e dey waka for di road, small boys come from di city come dey mock am: “Go up, bald head! Go up, bald head!” ²⁴E turn, look dem, come curse dem for our Papa name. Two bears then comot from di bush come tear forty-two of di boys. ²⁵And Elisha waka go Mount Carmel, and from dia e go back to Samaria.